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What I can't tell with a photo I will tell with a painting, and what I can't tell with a painting I will tell with a video or text sometimes, et cetera.

— Francis Alys

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I have been told that some of my photographs maybe indicate that I am a painter.

— Saul Leiter

I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.

— John Dyer

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

— Jackson Pollock

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

— Man Ray

A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings, the brushstrokes - more than describing somebody. People latch on to the personalities when they talk about my work and forget the other parts.

— Elizabeth Peyton

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

— Jackson Pollock

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

— Gustav Klimt

I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not.

— Grimes

✗Opposing Perspectives

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

— Charles Bukowski

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.

— Edvard Munch