Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking at art as though you hadn't seen art before.
I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.