#10

“All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.” ~John Berger


I never thought of it this way, but I agree and disagree with this quote as well.
Paintings are done with a subject in front of the painter, or from memory. If the subject is in front of the painter, I consider the painting much more like a photograph. It is helping to preserve the moment and the subject to be remembered later on. If the painting is from memory, its only purpose is to aid in remembering what had already occurred. A painting may also change its meaning to people looking at it later on. The tone or mood of the piece may be debatable, or the event it was capturing could be skewed other ways in peoples' heads.