“I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered with brushes, pots, tubes, bowls, staring into space and sticking out their tongues like the clever animals that ring a bell, tongues lolling and eyes vague. Teachers supervise these young creators of abstract art and slap their wrists if what they paint represents something and dangerously inclines toward realism. The mothers - still at the Picasso stage - are not admitted.” IfsLittlesArtStillsEyeYoungMotherGirlSpaceForgetAnimalSawsTeacherModernStagePaintingTablesPaintCreatorTongueRingsCleverStaringAbstractFiftyNever ForgetCoveredMuseumsPotBellsRealismBowlsVagueBrushesModernismSlapTubesWristsModern ArtInclineAbstract ArtSticking OutStaring Into Space Author:Jean Cocteau
“Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes simplified until it can be nothing but abstraction.” KindSometimesFashionPaintingGoes OnRealisticRealismAbstraction Author:Georgia O'Keeffe
“Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.” ShouldWholeRealityChoicesGivenPaintingFeaturesCaptureRealisticRealismProminence Author:Alain de Botton
“I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism in painting - to non-objective creation.” FormCreationPaintingObjectivesZeroTransformedRealism Author:Kazimir Malevich
“I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't consider important... I was experimenting with different kinds of realistic art, impressionism and the more decorative compositions of different forms of painting, which took away from the earlier photographic realism that I was doing.” KindArtImportantDifferentFormPaintingExperimentsOfficialsRealisticDifferent KindsRealismCompositionImpressionism Author:E. J. Hughes
“It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.” PaintingEasierPaintDebateRealisticRealism Author:Igor Babailov
“I firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components.” BelieveStrongPaintingAbstractRealismComponents Author:Robert Reynolds
“There is an instinct for realism, a powerful drive to reproduce oneself. The fascination of photorealistic paintings lies partly in their apparent replication of life, but these are not merely replications. These paintings are often out of life scale, varying from over life-size to under life-size, from brilliant, heightened color to pale, undertone hues.” LyingPowerfulColorPaintingInstinctSizeOneselfBrilliantScalesPaleRealismFascinationHueReplicationLife Size Book:Art & soul: notes on creating Source: Art & soul: notes on creating
“I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of the hallmarks of realist painting.” FormSpaceHonestyPaintingArtisticRealismEditingRealistHallmark Author:Philip Pearlstein
“Hyperrealism is more about objectifying... how an object can be portrayed when it is seen through a camera's lens... all my paintings are about an object being viewed through human eyes.” HumansEyeObjectsPaintingCamerasRealismLensesHuman EyesObjectifying Author:Liu Dan
“Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.” ShouldArtTwoLinesSpacePaintingHarmonyRealismGreat Art Author:Arthur Wesley Dow
“Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one great end. As long as nature is a means to the attainment of beauty, so-called realism is necessary and permissable [sic], but it must be realism enhanced by idealism and uplifted by the spirit of an inner life or purpose.” ShouldMeanLongArtEndsSpiritPurposeBeautyMusicPaintingDramaArt IsRealismIdealismAttainmentInner LifeSubservient Author:Julia Marlowe
“Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental art gets squashed and social realism comes back into play. All of a sudden, Malevich is no longer painting black squares; he's painting peasants in colorful schmattas.” ArtPlayHappensSocialBlackModernPaintingRevolutionRussiaAbstractSquaresRealismPeasantsColorfulAbstract ArtRussian Revolution Author:Robert Longo