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“Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817)”

Ifs Whole Eye Sun Creation Painting Ideals Cameras Paint Poetic Flash Describing Whole Picture Camera Obscura

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.”

Humans Use Eye Used Painting Tomorrow Human Eyes

Author:Louis Aragon

“Just as the unmusical ear is not competent to judge music, so it is likewise with pictures, whether they are paintings, drawings or photos. Only a sensitive and trained eye gives us the right to judge.”

Giving Eye Painting Judging Ears Drawing Sensitive Competent

Author:Josef Albers

“The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has withered the pride of handworked mediums. Painting survives on a case-by-case basis, its successes amounting to special exemptions from a verdict of history.”

Art Problem Eye Film Cases Special Painting Pride Photography Bases Cameras Video Mediums Dominant Extensions Nineteen Verdict Withered Pictorial Exemption

Author:Peter Schjeldahl

“Photography is nature seen from the eyes outward, painting from the eyes inward. Photography records inalterably the single image, while painting records a plurality of images willfully directed by the artist.”

Eye Artist Records Painting Photography Inward

Book:Charles Sheeler: Essays by Martin Friedman, Bartlett Hayes [and] Charles Millard

Source: Charles Sheeler: Essays by Martin Friedman, Bartlett Hayes [and] Charles Millard

“I had a growing feeling that most of the best art of the world in painting and sculpture had been done, and that this newest form [photography] was more related to the progress and tempo of modern science of the eye.”

World Art Done Feelings Eye Form Growing Progress Modern Painting Photography Related Sculpture Tempo Modern Science Best Art

Book:Paul Outerbridge, Jr: photographs

Source: Paul Outerbridge, Jr: photographs

“In a painting no one complains that the subject is posed, but everybody complains about what looks posed in a photograph. Except, I've found that if I go very close in to the face, then the posed expression no longer exists. The face becomes a landscape of the lakes of the eyes and the hills of the nose and the valley of the cleft of the chin.”

Ifs Looks Eye Faces Found Subjects Painting Expression Photograph Complaining Hills Landscape Noses Lakes Valleys Chins

Author:John Loengard

“I'd love to be considered a post-pop artist, but I love to have five or six different styles in every painting, just for the pleasure of the eye.”

Different Eye Artist Pleasure Five Style Painting Six Pops Posts Different Styles

Author:Erro

“I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.”

Eye Church Seeing Painting Catholic Guilt Saint

Author:Nan Goldin