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Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography. -- John Baldessari
I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me. -- Sigmar Polke
I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical. -- PJ Harvey
I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way. -- Sydney Pollack
Painting and photography keep the creative channel open, and for an actor, it's to keep alive, it's to keep awake, it's to keep watching, it's to keep feeling, it's to keep enjoying, to keep that sensuality of feeling alive. -- Charlotte Rampling
Everything I do, it's a bit painterly. I like being surrounded by objects, mostly on paper. I like the images. I like the painting. I like good photography. It's something that makes me an emotional connection, and I feel comfortable around it. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of. -- David Lynch
Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately. -- Edward Weston
A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people. -- Paula Patton
I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.' -- Jerry Saltz
I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes. -- J. C. Chandor
Photography is painting with light -- Miroslav Tichy
Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting. -- Robertson Davies
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Photography and painting, all of that fed into my directing eventually. -- Dennis Hopper
I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school. -- Dianna Agron
Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today. -- Edward Weston
Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point? -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Photography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble. -- John Gossage
Photography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards. -- Charles Sheeler
Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema. -- David Lynch
I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical. -- PJ Harvey
...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context. -- Edmundo Desnoes
Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do. -- Brassai
This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture. -- Ansel Adams
In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other. -- Jack Welpott
Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating. -- Viggo Mortensen
I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater. -- James Gray
To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting. -- John Gutmann
DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.) -- Gustave Flaubert
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T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress. -- Banksy
Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a bit, but not enough. -- Jacques-Henri Lartigue
Painting requires skill. Photography is created by the camera, and one cannot fully control what the camera sees. So people take many photographs because several must always be discarded. -- Igor Babailov
As a teenager, I loved acting, painting, photography, and making films with my friend's Super 8 camera. But I always loved writing the best. I chose writing even before I knew poetry was available to me. -- Denise Duhamel

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