Best photography & paint Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.”

Ifs Men Would Be Artist Tree He Man Flower Kings Photography Paint Photographer Surface

Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

“If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years.”

Ifs Years Ten Photography Paint

Author:John F. Carlson

“It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into painting.”

Quality Design Painting Photography Cameras Paint Dues Invention

Author:E. J. Hughes

“If you paint from 35mm Kodachrome, you end up with a 4x5 foot Kodachrome!”

Ifs Ends Feet Photography Paint

Author:Sergei Bongart

“What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: "Paint me just as I am." Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.”

Ifs Shows Artist Wish Perfect Subjects Photography Absolutes Paint Photographer Painter Portraits Fidelity Old Days

Author:Aubrey Beardsley

“When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can.”

Knows Men Doe Moments Achieve Painting Photography Relation Cameras Paint Vans Vivid Sunflower

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“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

“I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do.”

Wells Film Materials Photography Draws Paint Presenting General Public

Author:Paul Kane

“As for myself, I'm attracted to venture into places with peeling paint, and areas that are crumbling a little bit. It makes sense because we've already established the photography focusing on architecture, even if it looks incorrect, there's something appealing about entering that.”

Photography Paint Architecture Make Sense

Author:Teresa Palmer

“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.”

“For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.”

Art Artist Realizing Creativity Subjects Photography Paint Sensations Impressionism Impressionists

Author:Paul Cezanne

“I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.”

Looks Reason Photography Paint Photographer Likes Painter Reason Why Shared Experiences

Author:Chuck Close

“People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.”

People Waiting Photography Paint Portraits

Author:Robert Mapplethorpe

“Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses the essential superlative curves and lines. Light I acknowledge as the energy upon which all life on this planet depends.”

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Author:Ruth Bernhard

“A thing is not what you say it is or what you photograph it to be or what you paint it to be or what you sculpt it to be. Words, photographs, paintings, and sculptures are symbols of what you see, think, and feel things to be, but they are not the things themselves.”

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Book:Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning

Source: Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning

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