Artist Quote by David Bellos

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

— Philip Guston

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

— Roland Barthes

What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.

— Haruki Murakami

The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.

— A. S. Byatt

“Art is neither good nor bad, but a clairvoyant vision of the nature of both, and any attempt to align it with morality, otherwise…

— Northrop Frye

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

— Gustave Courbet

A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means…

— John Updike

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

— Edgar Degas

The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd that create…

— Colin Blakemore

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

— Robertson Davies

By means of the iconic, artists express their view of reality and show their understanding of the structure of reality. They see what they…

— Hans Rookmaaker

My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.

— Ken Danby