Absent Quote by Squeak Carnwath

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

— Philip Guston

What painting is, is exactly what people see.

— Robert Ryman

Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible – and I make use of painting…

— Rene Magritte

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

— Agnes Martin

Through a painting, we can see the whole world.

— Hans Hofmann

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

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.

— Paul Klee

I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.

— Julian Schnabel

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

My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.

— Ken Danby

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

— Roland Barthes

In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.

— Paul Klee