Analogies Quote by Edouard Vuillard

While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never…

— Susan Sontag

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

— Roland Barthes

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

— Gustave Courbet

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.

— Stephane Mallarme

Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.

— Sidney Nolan

A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.

— Mark Rothko

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

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

— Max Ernst

“Art in painting should consist only of the representation of things that are visible and tangible.”

— Gustave Courbet

“Painting can feign reality without having seen it. Discourse combines signs which have referents, of course, but these referents can be and are most…

— Roland Barthes

No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean…

— Marlene Dumas