This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.
I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.