“A great portrait is always more a portrait of the painter than of the painted.”
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Portraits
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VII - On the Making of Music, Pictures, and Books
“The painter's portrait and the physicist's explanation are both rooted in reality, but they have been changed by the painter or the physicist into something more subtly imagined than the photographic appearance of things.”
Part 4: "The Abacus and the Rose" (p. 103)
Science and Human Values (1956, 1965)
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“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”
Susan Sontag book On Photography
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Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer
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“One of the best-kept secrets of science is that physicists have lost their grip on reality.”
Nick Herbert (1936) American physicist
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“Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
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