Brushes Quote by James Elkins

If you ask people to remember a painting and a photograph, their description of the photograph is far more accurate than that of the…

— Luc Tuymans

In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on…

— Siri Hustvedt

The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.

— Robert Henri

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory,…

— Philip Guston

Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember things by.

— James Rosenquist

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a painting is;…

— Philip Guston

All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of…

— John Berger

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

“Memory cannot produce a picture that Imagination has not retouched; and her pictures, even the ones least touched by Imagination, are no mere photographs,…

— Henry de Vere Stacpoole

To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of 'pushing paint,' breathing fumes, dripping oils and wiping…

— James Elkins

Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a…

— Richard Diebenkorn

I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a…

— Eugene Delacroix