Anecdotes Quote by Maurice Denis

I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.

— David Hockney

I am trying to find out why a subject does look so marvelous, and trying to make that sensation manifest on a flat surface.

— Euan Uglow

Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in…

— John Ruskin

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

Every flat surface has a depth no matter how small. So judge it completely by the surface and depth not just the surface.

— Terry Mark

Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface,

— Donald Judd

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of…

— William Scott

I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it.

— Helen Frankenthaler

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

— Anonymous

“They covered every flat surface in a state of total democracy”

— Terry Pratchett

It takes skill to trip on a flat surface.

— Anonymous

Why should I ever get fed up talking about my father? He was a brilliant, colorful man who left us with thousands of memories.…

— Danny Huston