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“What is seen and called the picture is what remains - an evidence. Even as one travels in painting toward a state of 'unfreedom' where only certain things can happen, unaccountably the unknown and free must appear.”

States Happens Certain Painting Evidence Remains

Book:Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

“Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one photograph, unlike one painting, implies that there will be others.”

Pieces Painting Photography Evidence Photograph Biographies Ongoing

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“Chauvet Cave is rather like the awakening of the modern human soul or I would say the awakening of modern human culture. Because Neanderthal men who still rode the landscape parallel to the people who did these paintings didn't have culture. There's no evidence of culture, no symbolic depiction, no evidence of music, no evidence of sculptures, no evidence of religious beliefs.”

People Men Humans Stills Soul Culture Belief Religious Modern Painting Evidence Awakening Landscape Caves Sculpture Parallels Human Soul Symbolic Religious Belief Depiction Neanderthals

Author:Werner Herzog

“A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means whereby it was made. We do not trust the artist's flattering hand; but we do trust film, and shadows, and light.”

Mean Made Hands Light Film Artist Painting Evidence Shadow Photograph Visuals Representation Convincing Flattering

Book:More Matter: Essays And Criticism

Source: More Matter: Essays And Criticism

“The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.”

Looks Left Century Painting Evidence Painter Crafts

Author:Balthus

“You have made me ashamed of the wasted years. You have made me acknowledge that no darkness has ever been deep enough to extinguish my personal knowledge of love. And all around me in this world I see evidence of love. I see love. I see it in the human struggle. I see its undeniable penetration in all that humans have accomplished in their poetry, their painting, their music, their love of one another and refusal to accept suffering as their lot.”

World Years Humans Made Enough Suffering Accepting Darkness Struggle This World Painting Evidence Acknowledge Accomplished Ashamed Refusal Penetration Personal Knowledge

Author:Anne Rice

“One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.”

Men Looks May Feelings Pain Certain Enjoy Subjects He Man Painting Taste Evidence Terror Terrorism Impassioned

Book:Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir

Source: Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir