Corresponding Quote by Gerhard Richter

I believe I am looking for rightness. My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness.…

— Gerhard Richter

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

— Gustave Courbet

A painting has its own existence and reality, and I make changes freely to meet the painting's needs. This sometimes takes me in another…

— Mary Beth McKenzie

The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.

— A. S. Byatt

I think there has to be an interesting transformative process between your perception of reality and making the paintings. If you are just trying…

— Susan Rothenberg

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

— Roland Barthes

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

— Max Ernst

I think there's no truer and more pure purpose than to be able to refine your art to a point where you feel it's…

— David Draiman

Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while…

— Andre Malraux

My paintings are about light, about the way things look in their environment and especially about how things look painted. Form, colour and space…

— Ralph Goings

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

— Odilon Redon

True art lies in a reality that is felt.

— Odilon Redon