Accurate Quote by Luc Tuymans

The material memories are not usually part of what is said about a picture, and that is a fault in interpretation because every painting…

— James Elkins

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

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

We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history. I think when a modern photograph taps into those,…

— Chris Hondros

Painting should educate and enrich. Modern painting merely offers a split-second emotion: You see it, you have an instant reaction and move on. Instead,…

— Igor Babailov

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art

— Maurice Ravel

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that…

— Edvard Munch

It is now an accepted fact that the expression of emotion through painting... is a source of deep psychological satisfaction... It is a system…

— Mervyn Levy

A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings,…

— Elizabeth Peyton

I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.

— Francesco Clemente

Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised,…

— Susan Sontag