Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.
I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.
Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.
Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?
There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.
When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an artist persist in treating subjects that can be established so clearly with the lens of a camera?
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