Capture Quote by Alain de Botton

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

— Roland Barthes

I think there has to be an interesting transformative process between your perception of reality and making the paintings. If you are just trying…

— Susan Rothenberg

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

— John Berger

Every work of art depicts an aspect of reality.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while…

— Andre Malraux

“A painter must never be satisfied with what he sees—painting reality means surrendering to it,”

— Saša Stanišić

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of…

— Susan Sontag

A picture is a model of reality.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.

— Edouard Vuillard

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

— Alfred Stieglitz

By means of the iconic, artists express their view of reality and show their understanding of the structure of reality. They see what they…

— Hans Rookmaaker

Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination…

— Tennessee Williams