Abstraction Quote by Georgia O'Keeffe

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and…

— Oscar Wilde

I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love. Those photographic…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I think there has to be an interesting transformative process between your perception of reality and making the paintings. If you are just trying…

— Susan Rothenberg

Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them…

— Berenice Abbott

So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation.

— William Dobell

I painted two pictures of myself lately, one of which has rather the true character ... I always think photographs abominable, and I don't…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of…

— Duane Michals

Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.

— Nir Hod

I think everything can be painted because painting can change reality; but everything cannot be photographed and the photographer often comes home empty-handed, with…

— Martine Franck

I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a…

— Francis Bacon

There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in the light)…

— Jean-Luc Godard

I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on…

— David Hockney