Describing Quote by Georges Braque

“The concept of a writer writing a vivid and accurate scene in a language transparent and devoid of decoration so that we see through…

— Samuel R. Delany

“Writing is a unique art-form. You are painting a detailed image in someone's mind, and it will be different for every single reader.”

— Giuseppe Bianco

The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.

— A. S. Byatt

Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.

— Maxwell Perkins

Writing can be bad and still be part of something good. That 'art' is really 'artifact,' Exhibit A, Exhibit B, of something else: a…

— Chris Kraus

When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.

— Walter Darby Bannard

The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.

— Edouard Vuillard

“Visual and performing artists produce art that lives in the present world. The art of the writer exists in another dimension. Through strings of…

— Mindie Burgoyne

“Painters have often taught writers how to see.”

— James Baldwin

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

— Philip Guston

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

— 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