Absurd Quote by Andre Gide

Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.

— Adrienne Monnier

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

— Fernando Botero

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

— Salvador Dali

We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true; though happily for human nature,…

— Anonymous

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

— C. R. Strahan

“Transformation begins with tearing down the old, stretching beyond the existing, and undergoing deformity to give life to an astounding form.”

— Jayita Bhattacharjee

I'm not sure that is correct but I love that interpretation - that we artists never go out of self-portrait.

— Pierre Huyghe

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

— Anthony Powell

Life imitates art -- but badly.

— Edward Abbey

The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

— Ansel Adams

When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy.

— Henry Fuseli

“..the brave picture we have of humans as rational beings is utterly misleading, a kind of photograph of our surface composure and thus unreflective…

— Arnold Weinstein