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“I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.”

Stills Movement Painting Illusion Exciting Tricks Fixed

Author:Cecily Brown

“The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion of space, but it is space itself as a perceived quantity that becomes the peculiar concern of the sculptor. We may say that for the painter space is a luxury; for the sculptor it is a necessity.”

Giving May Two Three Space Objects Painting Illusion Concern Strive Painter Luxury Planes Peculiar Quantity Sculpture Sculptors

Author:Herbert Read

“Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.”

World Real Painting Illusion

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.”

Real Painting Illusion Assuming Landscape

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Painting comes to reality through illusion. An illusion that allows us to make a leap of faith; to believe. To believe in a blue that can be the wing of a bug or a thought. It makes our invisible visible.”

Believe Reality Painting Illusion Blue Wings Invisible Visible Leap Bugs Leap Of Faith

Book:Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery

Source: Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery

“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.”

Mind Moving Pieces Magic Painting Illusion Surface Planes

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

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

“To me, the art of cinema is the same as the art of painting. The artist takes a 2D medium and gives you the illusion of depth. If you look at any of the great paintings, you have the illusion of depth. Which is part of the art. The same with the great movies.”

Ifs Giving Looks Art Artist Painting Illusion Depth Mediums Cinema

Author:William Friedkin

“Well, I dare not allow myself any illusions, and I am afraid it may never happen that Father and Mother will really appreciate my art. It is not their fault; we do not see the same things with the same eyes, or have the same thoughts raised in us by them. They will never be able to understand what painting is.”

Wells May Art Happens Eye Able Mother Father Painting Illusion Appreciate Faults Raised Dare

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.”

Writing Painting Illusion Describing

Book:Illustrated notebooks, 1917-1955

Source: Illustrated notebooks, 1917-1955