Backgrounds Quote by William Morris Hunt

If you can see it, and if you know your color, you can paint it.

— Nelson Shanks

Paint what you really see, not what you think you ought to see; not the object isolated as in a test tube, but the…

— Claude Monet

“Eggs possess an elemental power. Their outer shell is earth. Their white is water. The membrane that lines the shell is air, and the…

— Joanne Owen

We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination

— John Berger

People like to say that my work is about making the invisible visible, but that's a misunderstanding. It's about showing what invisibility looks like.

— Trevor Paglen

It’s what’s invisible that creates what’s visible.

— T. Harv Eker

Only after I've seen the visible can I imagine what the invisible is.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

You can squint and see something else, or something will come forward in the paint. You'll always see something else.

— Polly Allen Mellen

Simply because something is not visible it doesn't mean that it is not there.

— Shimon Attie

“Would a human egg let itself be seen?”

— Jesmyn Ward

It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.

— Miguel de Cervantes

The background reveals the true being and state of being of the man or thing. If I do not possess the background, I make…

— Juan Ramon Jimenez