Art Quote by Gerhard Richter

I've never found anything to be lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can see many more things in it than in…

— Gerhard Richter

Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different…

— Tibor Kalman

Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole...

— Alain de Botton

The photograph, now they are detached from their original surroundings, they are involved in a close world in which they only relate to each…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

— Alfred Stieglitz

The smudging makes the paintings a bit more complete. When they're not blurred, so many details seem wrong, and the whole thing is wrong…

— Gerhard Richter

I can understand there are things like shadows they need to fix after a shoot, but it's unfair to represent an image of yourself…

— Emily Blunt

The photograph suggests that our image of reality is made up of images. It makes explicit the domination of mediation.

— Andy Grundberg

Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.

— Robert Genn

Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear

— Samuel Beckett

Usually I think if there is something imperfect in a photograph it makes the picture more real. Photographs that are slick, smooth, and imperfect…

— John Loengard

During photography's first decades, exposure times were quite long... So, similar to the drawings produced with the help of a camera obscura, which depicted…

— Lev Manovich