Brilliant Quote by Audrey Flack

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

I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to me. But…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

— Richard Pousette-Dart

One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The…

— Edward Hopper

“Art transcends selfish and obsessive limitations of personality and can enlarge the sensibility of its consumer. It is a kind of goodness by proxy.…

— Iris Murdoch

Paintings don't just happen. I am not a proponent of the idea of an artist as someone who kind of magically makes things and…

— Kerry James Marshall

Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.

— Brooks Atkinson

Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole...

— Alain de Botton

Realism is a philosophy as opposed to a style. For me, painting is about observing and recording my existence as accurately as I can,…

— David Kassan

...throughout the history of art it has been art itself - in all its forms - that has inspired art...today's photographs are so geared…

— Van Deren Coke

Photography has almost no reality; it is almost a hundred per cent picture. And painting always has reality: you can touch the paint; it…

— Gerhard Richter

The paintings live because their creator has been passionately attentive to their theme, and his attention has left something for us to look at.…

— Lucian Freud