“My idea of a perfect surrealist painting is one in which every detail is perfectly realistic, yet filled with a surrealistic, dreamlike mood. And the viewer himself can't understand why that mood exists, because there are no dripping watches or grotesque shapes as reference points. That is what I'm after: that mood which is apart from everyday life, the type of mood that one experiences at very special moments.” IdeasMomentsPerfectWatchesSpecialPaintingTypeShapesFilledEverydayDetailsMoodRealisticEveryday LifeViewersSurrealismGrotesqueDrippingSurrealistSpecial Moments Author:Ian Hornak
“What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and shape in architecturalcontinuity - the rhythm across their paintings. When I paint a landscape, Iget the greatest pleasure out of composing it. As I paint, I try to work outa visual sonata form or a fugue, with realistic images.” WayTryingFormSpacePleasurePaintingShapesOrganizationPaintWork OutRhythmLandscapeVisualsRealisticComposingGreatest PleasuresFugueSonatasCezanne Author:Ian Hornak
“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
“When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.” ProcessPaintingPatternsAbstractRealisticEchoesParallelsAbstract Painting Author:Walter Darby Bannard
“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
“My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph.” UnderstandingGoalClearPaintingPhotographRealistic Author:E. J. Hughes
“It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.” PaintingEasierPaintDebateRealisticRealism Author:Igor Babailov
“The literature of the immediate future will inevitably turn away from painting, whether respectably realistic or modern, and from daily life, whether old or the very latest and revolutionary, and turn to artistically realized philosophy.” InspirationalArtPhilosophyTurnsLiteratureModernPaintingRevolutionaryDaily LifeRealistic Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals is instructive in painting a realistic portrayal of Lincoln and his methods for accomplishing his objectives. In fact, many good political biographies are useful in learning about power, strategy, and decision-making.” FactsPoliticalDecisionTeamPaintingMethodStrategyObjectivesDecision MakingRealisticBiographiesRivalsPortrayalDoriGood Political Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer