Art Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“Art is neither good nor bad, but a clairvoyant vision of the nature of both, and any attempt to align it with morality, otherwise…

— Northrop Frye

“Any artist is insulted by the suggestion that art is merely a matter of recording reality, and knows that it is impossible to explain…

— Joan Lindsay

“Paint, for the Impressionists, became a medium whose material properties were being celebrated as opposed to being disguised behind the artifice of a pictorial…

— Will Gompertz

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

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

— Roland Barthes

“Art transcends selfish and obsessive limitations of personality and can enlarge the sensibility of its consumer. It is a kind of goodness by proxy.…

— Iris Murdoch

The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd that create…

— Colin Blakemore

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

— Max Ernst

“As a matter of fact, no one is more tiresome than the person who can understand only realism in art. It shows a rather…

— Aaron Copland

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

An artist paints his own reality.

— Ernie Barnes

“She drew the things that stuck to her mind, the things that caught her attention and, specially, the things she wasn't capable of understanding…

— Zøe Haslie