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“If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro.”

Ifs World Looks Asks Painting Perception Ask Me

Book:Looking for answers: conversations on art and science

Source: Looking for answers: conversations on art and science

“Sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my subconscious, the way a dream might. Even in those paintings where an image unconsciously develops, a certain kind of experience is usually necessary in order to perceive it.”

Way Kind May Sometimes Dream Might Certain Order Painting Perception Perceive Subconscious Chords

Author:Robert Motherwell

“Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.”

Giving Mean Literature Painting Shapes Perception Drawing Colour Sensations Concrete Abstraction

Author:Paul Cezanne

“It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.”

Giving Feelings Artist Wish Painting Perception Observation Atmosphere Register

Author:Lucian Freud

“Painted time is a different zone. This is why I don't believe that a painting - although I've been accused of it many times now - can be truly topical. A painting's physicality gives it a different persistence and a different perception.”

Giving Believe Different Painting Perception Don't Believe Persistence Zone Accused Physicality Different Perceptions

Author:Luc Tuymans

“Most people don't like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it's difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of fruit is much easier. It's for the same reason why we don't like going to the doctor. The diagnosis and x-rays are too honest. This is what creates the perception that contemporary art is shocking or suspicious.”

People Life Art Reason Facts Difficult Honest Painting Easier Perception Art Is Doctors Fruit Contemporary Reason Why Rays Bowls Shocking Suspicious Diagnosis Facts Of Life Contemporary Art

Author:Adamo Macri

“I think there has to be an interesting transformative process between your perception of reality and making the paintings. If you are just trying to render what you see you are not entering into a transformative process. And that's what makes a good painting: the process of transforming and the willingness to leave reality behind.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Reality Process Interesting Behinds Painting Perception Willingness Entering Transforming Perception Reality

Author:Susan Rothenberg

“I think that at its best, painting can be an act of juggling perceptions, a hall of mirrors. And it can be a bit confusing and scattering. But as the artist, as the man behind the velvet rope who controls the smoke and the mirrors and the way that things move in the painted space, what I want to do is to try my best to be a good witness.”

Thinking Men Way Want Trying Moving Artist Bits Space Behinds He Man Painting Perception Mirrors Witness Smoke Halls Confusing Rope Velvet Juggling

Author:Kehinde Wiley