Imperfection Quote by George Eliot

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

— Philip Guston

After all, the true seeing is within.

— George Eliot

The true seeing is when there is no seeing.

— Shenhui

When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in…

— Ivan Eyre

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent…

— Susan Rothenberg

In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake.

— David Bellos

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

— Roland Barthes

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of…

— William Scott

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

— Ali Banisadr

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

— Agnes Martin

Don't rely on just what you see, instead rely beyond of what you see...because the illusion is always outside and the reality definitely is…

— Anonymous

You can squint and see something else, or something will come forward in the paint. You'll always see something else.

— Polly Allen Mellen