Illusion Quote by Walter Darby Bannard

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

— Robert Rauschenberg

A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.

— Mark Rothko

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

— Keith Haring

In our culture, imitation-based experience dominates reality-based experience. I find this an awful thing. But there are artists who know from the bottom of…

— Richard Tuttle

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

— Roland Barthes

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

When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh…

— Wayne Thiebaud

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

— Richard Phillips

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

I know the world that I am painting is not a reality. It is a whim, an entertainment to provoke something in people, whether…

— Tim Walker

Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through…

— Paul McCartney

Art, I've always believed, is more real than life.

— Kay Kay Menon