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“Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.”

Matter Power Advice Information Painting Expecting Sensibility Good Advice Seizing

Book:The surrealist Picasso

Source: The surrealist Picasso

“I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.”

World Should Looks Information Painting Painter Anxious

Book:Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

“In truth, factual information - names or dates - have never interested me much. Those things are like an alien language that can interfere with the language of the painting, or even prevent its emergence.”

Names Language Information Painting Aliens Interfere Emergence Factual

Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.”

Information Painting Subtle Get Away Loaded Visceral Cezanne

Author:Wolf Kahn

“I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that ours is a regularly taught profession; that it is scientific as well as poetic; that imagination alone never did, and never can, produce works that are to stand by a comparison with realities.”

World Should Wells Looks Shows Reality Imagination Information Produce Taught Painting Profession Painter Comparison Poetic Anxious

Book:Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

“The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one.”

Ifs Needs Writing Seems Song Information Painting Roots Mirrors Mere Sentences Realist Impart

Author:Colm Toibin

“The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent. What we don't see anymore.”

World Information Painting Source Remains Visible Principal Absent

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 photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely be identified. A painting of a murder is of no interest whatever; but a photograph of a murder fascinates everyone.”

Ifs Interest Information Objects Painting Murder Photograph

Book:Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

“Originally, one of the reasons I was drawn to photography, as opposed to painting or sculpture or installation, is that of all the arts it is the most democratic, in so far as it's instantly readable and accessible to our culture. Photography is how we move information back and forth.”

Art Reason Moving Culture Information Painting Photography Democratic Sculpture Back And Forth Installation

Author:Gregory Crewdson