Certain Quote by Philip Guston

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

— John Berger

This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen, hiding themselves…

— Cennino Cennini

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

— Roland Barthes

Every photographed object is merely the trace left behind by the disappearance of all the rest. It is an almost perfect crime, an almost…

— Jean Baudrillard

My painting is visible images that conceal nothing... they evoke mystery. Mystery means nothing. It is unknowable.

— Rene Magritte

A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists,…

— Susan Sontag

The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent.…

— Squeak Carnwath

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

— Agnes Martin

The picture must all come out of the artist's inside. It is the image that lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but…

— D. H. Lawrence

At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as infinite as…

— Andrew Graham-Dixon

An image that is unseen can't sell anything. It is pure, therefore true, beautiful, in one word: innocent. As long as no eye contaminates…

— Wim Wenders

New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear. To find these images is to dare to…

— Lisette Model