Far away Quote by Robert Henri

If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't…

— Mandy Patinkin

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

— Philip Guston

The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically…

— Philip Guston

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

There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in the light)…

— Jean-Luc Godard

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

— Roland Barthes

Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness,…

— Leonardo da Vinci

When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in…

— Ivan Eyre

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

— Agnes Martin

Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.

— Paul Klee

My paintings always feature trails that dissolve into mysterious areas, patches of light that lead the eye around corners, pathways, open gates, etc.

— Thomas Kinkade

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

— Ali Banisadr