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The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.

— A. S. Byatt

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.

— Sylvester Stallone

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

— Robert Motherwell

The detail adds an element of unexpected something. All fiction is false; what makes it convincing is that it runs alongside the truth. The real world has lots of incidental details, so a painting also has to have that element of imperfection and irregularity, those incidental details.

— Shaun Tan

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

— Chuck Close

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

— Edgar Degas

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

— Gustave Courbet

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

— Max Beckmann

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Philip Guston

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

— Claude Debussy