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If I hold up a red square for 30 seconds and take it away, you will see a perfect green square. It's how the eye works. So if you want to paint a really good red painting, you have to strategically place in some green, so the eye is brought back.

— Robert Irwin

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

— Yoko Ono

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

— Grandma Moses

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

— David Hockney

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.

— Jasper Johns

I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.

— John Dyer

Since Courbet, it's been believed that painting is addressed to the retina. That was everyone's error. The retinal shudder! Before, painting had other functions: it could be religious, philosophical, moral... our whole century is completely retinal, except for the Surrealists, who tried to go outside it somewhat.

— Marcel Duchamp

Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.

— Winslow Homer

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

— Pablo Picasso

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Philip Guston