Biographies Quote by Susan Sontag

Painting requires skill. Photography is created by the camera, and one cannot fully control what the camera sees. So people take many photographs because…

— Igor Babailov

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

— Sigmar Polke

All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of…

— John Berger

Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.

— Emil Nolde

My paintings have an ongoing dialogue with photography. There are many painters who would say the same, I'm sure. The difference is that I'm…

— James Nares

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something…

— Susan Sontag

By making pictures, you learn the many different properties of photography. I use those properties differently than, say, an advertising agency would, but we're…

— Sigmar Polke

Photography is nature seen from the eyes outward, painting from the eyes inward. Photography records inalterably the single image, while painting records a plurality…

— Charles Sheeler

I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love. Those photographic…

— Vincent Van Gogh

So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation.

— William Dobell

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

— Ruth Bernhard

Each painting is its own world, but a lot of times I do see the paintings as one page from a story. You can…

— Neil Farber