Actual Quote by Samuel Barnett

I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on…

— David Hockney

I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to me. But…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

I love the way painting is so full of illusionistic possibilities.

— Jessica Stockholder

I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth.

— Lisette Model

There is an instinct for realism, a powerful drive to reproduce oneself. The fascination of photorealistic paintings lies partly in their apparent replication of…

— Audrey Flack

I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around.

— Joseph Raffael

I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.

— Chris Jordan

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

— Alvin Langdon Coburn

My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.

— Ken Danby

The sophisticated concern about art sinks before a spontaneous love of reality, and I thank the photograph for being so transparent a vehicle for…

— George Santayana

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