| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 8151 |
| QUOTATION: | The difference between a photograph and even the most realistic painting—say, one of Courbet’s landscapes—is that in the latter there has been selection, emphasis and some discreet distortion. The painter’s deep instinctive feeling for mass and force has rearranged everything. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Gerald Branan (1894–1987), British author. Thoughts in a Dry Season, Cambridge University Press (1978). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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