Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.
The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on.
All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.
I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description.
My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment.
How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream - be set down alive?
