Aim Quote by Susan Sontag

I think it's all absolute nonsense how people talk about photography as being an art. It's a very menial career that you do if…

— Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

Painting is traditional but for me that doesn't mean the academy. I felt a need to paint; I love painting. It was something natural…

— Gerhard Richter

Painting is the subject of painting.

— Joseph Raffael

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

Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come from a…

— Gerhard Richter

The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before they are…

— Clement Greenberg

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

— William Blake

To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes…

— Michael Snow

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

— Ansel Adams

The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the…

— Henri Matisse

Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.

— Nir Hod

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

— Ruth Bernhard