May Quote by Perry Brass

...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes a painting…

— David Byrne

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

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

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

— Edward Weston

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

— Alvin Langdon Coburn

Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole...

— Alain de Botton

No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph.

— Bill Brandt

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

There is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography.

— Manuel Alvarez Bravo

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

— Brassai

The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.

— Edouard Vuillard

What's great about it is that painting doesn't move. And so in the 21st century, when we're used to clicking and browsing and having…

— Kehinde Wiley