Artist Quote by Roland Barthes

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

— 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

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

— Gustave Courbet

Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

— Max Ernst

I think there has to be an interesting transformative process between your perception of reality and making the paintings. If you are just trying…

— Susan Rothenberg

Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while…

— Andre Malraux

Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole...

— Alain de Botton

“The painter is not simply someone who looks and who sees. Above all, the artist is someone who exposes a personal vision by rendering…

— Marcel Paquet

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

— Max Ernst

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

— Keith Haring

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

— Gustave Courbet

Painting comes to reality through illusion. An illusion that allows us to make a leap of faith; to believe. To believe in a blue…

— Squeak Carnwath