Abolish Quote by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

— Paul Cezanne

“The best works of art are never innocuous: they alter the viewer's perceptual predictions. It is only when the patterns of our vision are…

— Siri Hustvedt

If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but…

— Edgar Allan Poe

In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that…

— Pierre Bourdieu

The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd that create…

— Colin Blakemore

What is important is that our optical awareness rids itself of classical notions of beauty and opens itself more and more to the beauty…

— Raoul Hausmann

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

“Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.”

— Anonymous

When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead…

— Edward Weston

Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

— Robert Breault

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The artist striving for truth or sincerity had to guard his spontaneous vision against distortion or alteration by aesthetic conventions or preconceptions.”

— Linda Nochlin