Painting Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

— Pablo Picasso

I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.

— Brassai

Painting requires skill. Photography is created by the camera, and one cannot fully control what the camera sees. So people take many photographs because…

— Igor Babailov

You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography…

— Marcel Duchamp

Photography brought a lot to painting because it forced artists to think about what painting could do that photography couldn't.

— John Lanchester

Now, at a moment when photography is so pervasive that it's been forced to grapple with its own identity and look inward, it feels…

— Cynthia Daignault

I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now…

— Lewis Baltz

When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should…

— Pablo Picasso

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

— Ruth Bernhard

The real purpose of painting is to give pleasure.

— Robert Ryman