Artist Quote by Ernst Gombrich Download Open image “If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro.” — Ernst Gombrich ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Artist Ask me Asks Ifs Like Looks Like Painting Looks Looks Like Painting Painting Pissarro Perception World World Looks
I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me. — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
All I can say is that when I paint, I am looking at things that are in the world. — Elizabeth Neel Copy Share Image
I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the painting, it's… — Jenny Saville Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I realized painting could look like a film, and a film like a painting. — Rita Ackermann Copy Share Image
It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards, and enjoy… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
All art is image making and all image making is the creation of substitutes. — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
What an artist worries about when he plans his pictures, is something... difficult to put into words. Perhaps he would say he worries about… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
Seeing depends on knowledge / And knowledge, of course, on your college / But when you are erudite and wise / What matters is… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
The paintings in our galleries are seen one day in bright sunshine and another day in the dim light of a rainy afternoon, yet… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
During the days of my youth, critics and art-lovers resorted freely to this term of abuse. Even some of the most renowned Old Masters… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
What an artist worries about as he plans his pictures, makes his sketches, or wonders whether he has completed his canvas, is something much… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it. — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
“We are all inclined to accept conventional forms or colours as the only correct ones. Children sometimes think that stars must be star-shaped, though… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
