Feels Quote by John Gutmann

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

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

— Brassai

I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now…

— Lewis Baltz

Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a bit, but…

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

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

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I don't like the discussions about whether photography is an art. Even though I think that if it would be just a craft I…

— Josef Sudek

I did painting before I did photography.

— David Bailey

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

— Peter Greenaway

... photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a participant, though…

— Ezra Stoller

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