Painting Quote by Anonymous

There is only one true thing: Instantly paint what you see.

— Edouard Manet

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

— Roland Barthes

A snapshot steals life that it cannot return. A long exposure [creates] a form that never existed.

— Dieter Appelt

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

— Edouard Vuillard

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

— John Berger

One of the problems with technology is that no photograph, as superb and outstanding as it may be, will ever be as satisfying as…

— Perry Brass

I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.

— Samuel Barnett

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

— Gustave Courbet

Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought.

— Antoni Tapies

Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light.

— Philip Guston

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

— Man Ray

The ambition of instantaneous photography... was that of preserving the spontaneity of action and avoiding any indication that the presence of the picture taker…

— Rudolf Arnheim