Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes.
I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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.
Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.