Discover Quote by Alberto Giacometti

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to rediscover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved…

— Alberto Giacometti

I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head, I being to elaborate the…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

— Chuck Close

I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine trees and plums depicted…

— Zhang Xiaogang

Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a…

— Karl Philipp Moritz

“You can discover new things by changing your perspective and your location”

— Jo Nesbø

What seems interesting to me is to reproduce in the figurative representation of an object the whole complex system of impressions we receive in…

— Jean Dubuffet

“When we see, we do so many things: we experience what is happening in a direct way; we discover something we never noticed or…

— Donis A. Dondis

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

— Lucian Freud

“Transformation can come in the mysterious guise of shape-shifting, or through a simple change of mind”

— C. R. Strahan

Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also embodies that…

— Gerhard Richter

I've come to realize that I'm a image maker, not an object maker. Images come to me as photographs because I don't have any…

— Gerardo Suter