Absurd Quote by Willem de Kooning

If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it,…

— Willem de Kooning

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

Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them…

— Berenice Abbott

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

— Richard Prince

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

— Man Ray

There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should be, in…

— Philip Pearlstein

Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most complex organism…

— David Cobley

No one can ever create art, even on a piece of paper, as they have envisioned it in their mind.

— S. S. Rajamouli

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

— Pablo Picasso

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

— Pablo Picasso

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

— Roland Barthes

I wanted to make pictures that felt natural, that felt like seeing, that didn’t feel like taking something in the world and making a…

— Stephen Shore