Absent Quote by Leon Battista Alberti

Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem…

— Leon Battista Alberti

Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world.

— Jeffrey Smart

What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be…

— John Berger

From today, painting is dead.

— Paul Delaroche

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

— John Berger

Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting.

— Joshua L. Goldberg

There are absences, but there are also presences. It's about how painting can evolve its own abstractions. I didn't know the painting was going…

— Nigel Cooke

More than a process, painting is being possessed...

— Philip Guston

Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art,…

— Amy Sherald

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at…

— Balthus

Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.

— Caryl Churchill

The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.

— Paul Cezanne