Cameras Quote by Edward Weston

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.

— Gerhard Richter

“When I see how several painters I know here are struggling with their watercolours and paintings so that they can't see a solution anymore,…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was…

— Lucian Freud

People who believe in painting... realize there is something greater than just coming up with an idea, and executing it.

— Sam Messer

Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either,…

— Paul Strand

I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must…

— Thomas Gainsborough

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

— Alexander McCall Smith

Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There is much…

— R. B. Kitaj

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

— Dorothea Lange

The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry, where automatic…

— Andre Breton

In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I…

— Henry Flynt

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

— Peter Webber