Gustave Flaubert
[Writer, b. 1821, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France, d. 1880, Rouen, France.]
DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.)
(From “The Dictionary of Received Ideas,” assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.) 
Thomas Roma
[Photographer, b. 1950, Brooklyn, New York, lives in Brooklyn.]
Imagine what Masaccio or Leonardo would have done if they had an instrument with which they could point, push a button, and get an image.
Brassaï (Gyula Halász)
[Photographer, b. 1889, Brassó, Transylvania, Hungary (now Romania), d. 1984, Eze, Alpes-Maritimes, France.]
Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the latter of what it must not do.
John Berger
[Writer and critic, b. 1926, London, d. 2017, Paris.]
What served in the place of the photograph, before the camera’s invention? The expected answer is the engraving, the drawing, the painting. The more revealing answer might be: memory.
Susan Sontag
[Writer, theorist, and critic, b. 1933, New York, d. 2004, New York.]
From its start, photography implied the capture of the largest possible number of subjects. Painting never had so
imperial a scope.
John Szarkowski
[Curator, critic, historian, and photographer, b. 1925, Ashland, Wisconsin, d. 2007, Pittsfield, Massachusetts.]
The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making process—a process based not in synthesis but on selection. The difference was a basic one. Paintings were
made... but photographs, as the man on the street puts it, were
taken.
Man Ray (Emanuel Radnitsky)
[Artist, b. 1890, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, d. 1976, Paris.]
A photograph is to a painting what an automobile is to a horse. A rider on his horse is a beautiful thing, but I prefer a man in an airplane.
Jean-Dominique Ingres
[Artist, b. 1780, Montauban, France, d. 1867, Paris, France.]
Which of us could achieve this exactitude... this delicate modeling... indeed, what a wonderful thing photography is—but one dare not say that aloud.
