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“You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it eludes such investigation. It remains there like a question. And it alone gives the answer.”

Giving Answers Walks Sea Painting Moon Remains Investigation Elude

Book:Picasso and his art

Source: Picasso and his art

“What is seen and called the picture is what remains - an evidence. Even as one travels in painting toward a state of 'unfreedom' where only certain things can happen, unaccountably the unknown and free must appear.”

States Happens Certain Painting Evidence Remains

Book:Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

“To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model. Look what remains after that! The drawing is three fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over my door to the atelier, I would write: School of drawing, and I'm certain that I would create painters.”

Ifs Writing Looks Mean Doe Ideas School Form Certain Three Half Plans Doors Painting Expression Models Draws Remains Drawing Painter Interiors

Author:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

“The tradition of portrait painting, to embellish or idealize the subject, remains the aim of everyday and of commercial photography, but it has had a much more limited career in photography considered as art. Generally speaking, the honors have gone to the Cordelias.”

Art Careers Gone Subjects Painting Honor Photography Tradition Aim Remains Everyday Portraits Cordelia

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.”

Interesting Levels Painting Shapes Remains Patterns Abstract Aesthetic Duality Really Interesting Abstract Painting

Author:Francis Bacon

“When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.”

Men Book Lying Painting Remains Deceit Pretense

Book:Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs

Source: Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs

“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 subject I liked best was painting, but the teachers didn't approve of my experiments and sometimes criticized me in front of the whole class. Maybe my love for photography came from that humiliation: a photo is something that you develop and print yourself, in the dark, and that remains in the dark until you decide to show it.”

Sometimes Whole Shows Dark Class Teacher Subjects Fronts Painting Photography Remains Experiments Print Humiliation

Author:Hiroshi Hamaya

“You can see in my paintings, I've taken away the context, I've taken away the shadows, I've taken away expression, I've taken away the personal, and yet so much remains!”

Taken Painting Expression Shadow Remains

Author:Michael Craig-Martin