Cant Quote by Man Ray

Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.

— H. R. Giger

Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There is much…

— R. B. Kitaj

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

— Tori Amos

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to…

— Max Beckmann

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 think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was…

— Lucian Freud

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

— Balthus

Photography has almost no reality; it is almost a hundred per cent picture. And painting always has reality: you can touch the paint; it…

— Gerhard Richter

I never photograph anything I don't believe in. If I love working with death, it's because even in death I find this power of…

— Joel-Peter Witkin

It's dangerous that we can all paint a completely false picture of ourselves.

— Emily Atack

Something terrible can happen in my life, but I wouldn't put it in my art.

— Roy Lichtenstein

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and…

— Oscar Wilde