Appearance Quote by Andre Malraux

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

— Roland Barthes

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

— Gustave Courbet

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

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart

— Pablo Picasso

I know the world that I am painting is not a reality. It is a whim, an entertainment to provoke something in people, whether…

— Tim Walker

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

— Henry Moore

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

— Saša Stanišić

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

— Robert Rauschenberg

Painting is... a correspondence between what you are and what you see. It's a moment when something is holding together in such a way…

— Milton Resnick

Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

— Max Ernst

When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh…

— Wayne Thiebaud

Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.

— Jean-Luc Godard