Bits Quote by Jacques-Henri Lartigue

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.

— Peter Greenaway

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound. It's always at the back of my mind…

— Peter Greenaway

It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me…

— Erin Morgenstern

I get so tired of painting. I've been trying to give it up all the time, if we could just make a living out…

— Andy Warhol

To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting.

— John Gutmann

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

— Brassai

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

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

— John Lanchester

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

I've always painted or drawn pictures or taken still photographs; now I shoot movies. It's just about making images, really.

— Roger Deakins

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

My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations.

— Jamie Wyeth