About Quote by William Scott

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

— Philip Guston

Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it.

— Helen Frankenthaler

The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically…

— Philip Guston

I love the way painting is so full of illusionistic possibilities.

— Jessica Stockholder

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

— Roland Barthes

Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.

— Robert Genn

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent…

— Susan Rothenberg

There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in the light)…

— Jean-Luc Godard

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that ours is…

— John Constable

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

— Agnes Martin

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

— Max Ernst