Camera Quote by Henry Flynt

My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.

— Ken Danby

I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.

— Peter Webber

The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent.…

— Squeak Carnwath

I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.

— John Dyer

Now, at a moment when photography is so pervasive that it's been forced to grapple with its own identity and look inward, it feels…

— Cynthia Daignault

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

I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.

— Julian Schnabel

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.

— Arthur Smith

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

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

— Philip Guston

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

— Roland Barthes

I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on…

— David Hockney