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“I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.”

Firsts Children Art Young Photography Drawing Grandfather Exposure Young Children

Author:Sigmar Polke

“If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.”

Ifs Mean Art Perfect Powerful Identity Photography Ordinary Aspect Absolutes Disappear Drawing Closest Scrutiny Resemblance Absolute Truth Microscopes Photogenic

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“Photography is not only drawing with light, though light is the indispensable agent of its being. It is modeling or sculpturing with light, to reproduce the plastic form of natural objects. It is painting with light.”

Light Form Natural Objects Painting Photography Drawing Agents Plastic Indispensable Modeling

Book:A guide to better photography

Source: A guide to better photography

“One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming to fill a gap in the drawing.”

Knows Pieces Photography Remains Photograph Drawing Gaps Torn Fragments Profile

Author:Jean-Francois Lyotard

“... photography is an imprint or transfer off the real; it is a photochemically processed trace causally connected to the thing in the world to which it refers in a manner parallel to fingerprints or footprints or the rings of water that cold glasses leave on tables. The photograph is thus generically distinct from painting or sculpture or drawing. On the family tree of images it is closer to palm prints, death masks, the Shroud of Turin, or the tracks of gulls on beaches.”

“During photography's first decades, exposure times were quite long... So, similar to the drawings produced with the help of a camera obscura, which depicted reality as static and immobile, early photographs represented the world as stable, eternal, unshakable.”

World Firsts Long Helping Reality Eternal Photography Cameras Photograph Decades Drawing Stable Exposure Static Unshakable Camera Obscura

Book:The Language of New Media

Source: The Language of New Media

“We struggle against easel painting not because it is an aesthetic form of painting, but because it is not modern, for it does not succeed in bringing out the technical side, it is a redundant, exclusive art, and cannot be of any use to the masses. Hence we are struggling not against painting but against photography carried out as if it were an etching, a drawing, a picture in sepia or watercolor.”

Ifs Doe Art Use Form Sides Struggle Modern Painting Succeed Photography Mass Drawing Aesthetic Exclusive Redundant Watercolors Etching

Author:Alexander Rodchenko

“If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as you photograph.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Painting Photography Draws Paint Photograph Drawing Print

Author:Bill Jay

“Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.”

Writing Photography Music Is Drawing Doorways

Author:Layne Staley