Asks Quote by Scott McClanahan

“I never look at a painting and ask, "Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?" It's just a painting.”

— Scott McClanahan

Fiction is an expressionist painting rather than a photograph.

— Josip Novakovich

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

— Robert Rauschenberg

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

— Roland Barthes

It's funny, when things go on the internet now and people say 'that's not real,' well, that's what painting's always done - it's taken…

— Margaux Williamson

Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way that gravity-bound…

— Squeak Carnwath

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

— Gustave Courbet

It's really hard to write about art in general. But it's exceptionally hard to fictionalize art and make work that isn't a parody, or…

— Christopher Bollen

Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions…

— John Dryden

The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.

— William Dobell

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

— Max Ernst