“One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term 'life' as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again be great.” HumansDoeArtFormUsedTermHuman BeingsDealsExistenceDesignColorPaintingArt IsWeaknessConcernIntellectInventionRealmsAbstractSubstitutesConceptionContemptArrangementsImaginativeInner LifeProvincesPristineAbstract PaintingTerm Life Author:Edward Hopper
“My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.” PersonsHalfPaintingInventionPortraitsOther Half Author:Francesco Clemente
“It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into painting.” QualityDesignPaintingPhotographyCamerasPaintDuesInvention Author:E. J. Hughes
“Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.” DoeFeelingsPaintingSightInvention Author:Philip Gilbert Hamerton
“The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making process - a process based not on synthesis but on selection. The difference was a basic one. Paintings were made - constructed from a storehouse of traditional schemes and skills and attitudes - but photographs, as the man on the street put, were taken.” MenMadeProcessDifferencesAttitudeTakenStreetsHe ManPaintingSkillsPhotographyPhotographInventionTraditionalSchemesSelectionSynthesis Author:John Szarkowski
“The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry, where automatic writing, which appeared at the end of the nineteenth century, is a true photography of thought. Since a blind instrument now assured artists of achieving the aim they had set themselves up to that time, they now aspired, not without recklessness, to break with the imitation of appearances.” WritingWellsEndsArtistBreakAchieveCenturyPaintingExpressionPhotographyAimInstrumentsBlindBlowAppearanceInventionMortalsImitationAssuredNineteenth CenturyRecklessness Author:Andre Breton