Art Quote by John Lanchester

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

— Brassai

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

— Edward Ruscha

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

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

Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point?

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting.

— William Klein

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

— Sigmar Polke

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

— Cindy Sherman

Photography was inspired by painting, cinema by theatre and photography, I don't believe that any new art form was ever created from scratch.

— David Cage

... the battle for the acceptance of photography as Art was not only counter-productive but counter-revolutionary. The most important photography is most emphatically not Art.

— A. D. Coleman