Despise Quote by Marcel Duchamp

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

— Brassai

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

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

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art…

— Ansel Adams

Now that photography is a digital medium, the ghost of painting is coming to haunt it: photography no longer retains a sense of truth.…

— Vik Muniz

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

Now, at a moment when photography is so pervasive that it's been forced to grapple with its own identity and look inward, it feels…

— Cynthia Daignault

... 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

Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least…

— Susan Minot

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