Essence Quote by Gustave Courbet

Realism is a philosophy as opposed to a style. For me, painting is about observing and recording my existence as accurately as I can,…

— David Kassan

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

— Roland Barthes

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

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

— John Berger

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

Painting comes to reality through illusion. An illusion that allows us to make a leap of faith; to believe. To believe in a blue…

— Squeak Carnwath

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

— Gustave Courbet

Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the harmony of…

— Arthur Wesley Dow

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

— Gustave Courbet

The only realism in art is of the imagination.

— William Carlos Williams

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely physical language,…

— Gustave Courbet

All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.

— Mike Svob