“Photographers are failed painters.”
Paul Theroux (1941) American travel writer and novelist
Picture Palace (1978)
“Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?”
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Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stag… 1881–1973Related quotes
“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”
Susan Sontag book On Photography
Source: On Photography
Rajneesh (1931–1990) Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement
Come Follow To You, Vol. 2, Chapter 4; in Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic (2000), Part 2.
Paul Klee (1879–1940) German Swiss painter
Diary entry (1901), # 136, in The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918; University of California Press, 1964
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“All I see in the mirror every morning is a face that needs washing.”
Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011) British-American actress
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
"Rivers Grow Small" (1963), trans. Czesław Miłosz
Bobo's Metamorphosis (1965)
“I wanted to rub the human face in its own vomit and force it to look in the mirror.”
J. G. Ballard (1930–2009) British writer
On the reasons why he wrote Crash, as quoted in "From Wales, A World Apart" by Jeff Miers in Buffalo News (7 January 2005); also in "The Body Horrific : Cronenberg Classics at the IFC Center" by David Sharko at Tribeca Film (17 February 2009) http://www.tribecafilm.com/news-features/features/david_cronenberg.html <br class="br">Unsourced variant: "I wanted to rub humanity's face in its own vomit and force it to look in the mirror."
George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah
The She-Ancient, in Pt. V
Source: 1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
Context: Art is the magic mirror you make to reflect your invisible dreams in visible pictures. You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul. But we who are older use neither glass mirrors nor works of art. We have a direct sense of life. When you gain that you will put aside your mirrors and statues, your toys and your dolls.