Done Quote by David Hockney

I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.

— Samuel Barnett

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that…

— Edvard Munch

I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to me. But…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.

— Ken Danby

Some of the pictures are truly mysterious to me.. which is why I so often say publicly that I don't know or don't care…

— Susan Rothenberg

I find it satisfying that what I've done in photography has had so much influence in how people take photographs and what they look…

— William Klein

I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.

— Peter Webber

If you look at the paintings that I love in art history, these are the paintings where great, powerful men are being celebrated on…

— Kehinde Wiley

The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.

— Edward Ruscha

To see something spectacular and recognise it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something ordinary, something…

— Stephen Shore

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

— Agnes Martin