Marble Quote by John Gossage

Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today.

— Edward Weston

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

— Brassai

Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

— Conrad Hall

Over the past two decades, the boundary between photography and other media like painting, sculpture, or performance has become increasingly porous. It would seem…

— Geoffrey Batchen

The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.

— Edward Ruscha

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

— John Lanchester

As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of art, not…

— Van Deren Coke

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

I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium…

— John Dyer

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

— Auguste Rodin

I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.

— Sigmar Polke

I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.

— Alvin Langdon Coburn