Art Quote by Jay Maisel

The chief consideration for a good painter is to think out the whole of his picture, to have it in his head as a…

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow of life,…

— Paul Strand

Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness…

— Stephen Shore

There is no art which affords less opportunity to execute expression than photography. Everything is concentrated in a few seconds, when after perhaps an…

— Sadakichi Hartmann

If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as…

— Henri Matisse

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

— Brassai

Photography does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which serves the…

— Charles Negre

My paintings have an ongoing dialogue with photography. There are many painters who would say the same, I'm sure. The difference is that I'm…

— James Nares

Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to…

— Walker Evans

The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal…

— Bill Brandt

No photographer should be blamed when, instead of capturing reality, he tries to show things he has seen only in his imagination. Photography is…

— Philippe Halsman

If the subject is in a suffering circumstance, it is all the more preferable to apply craft to the utmost. Call it art or…

— Dennis Stock