Daguerreotypes Quote by Gustave Flaubert

Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.

— John Baldessari

The painter... will find [photography] a rapid way of making collections of studies he could otherwise obtain only with much time and trouble and,…

— Paul Delaroche

A photo is like a map, a way of giving me a foot into a kind of reality I want... I'm not trying to…

— Peter Doig

I'm a formalist. I'm interested in the history of painting.

— Glenn Ligon

But I would like to reach the point where I could cut up an illustrated magazine at random and see to it that the…

— Gerhard Richter

The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has…

— Peter Schjeldahl

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

— Auguste Rodin

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

— Paul Bourget

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

— Ruth Bernhard

The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making process - a process based not on synthesis but on selection. The difference was a…

— John Szarkowski

Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In…

— Aaron Scharf

Artists are interested in pictures as sources of ideas for their work. Where the pictures come from and how they are made is of…

— Van Deren Coke