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“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.”

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Author:Ian Hornak

“I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.”

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Author:Damien Hirst

“Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.”

Needs Facts Painting Deception Flats Viewers

Author:Robert Genn

“Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back into the present moment, which I find very pleasurable.”

Moments Ability Rooms Objects Painting Present Moment Viewers Knocking

Author:Joe Bradley

“If you ask people to remember a painting and a photograph, their description of the photograph is far more accurate than that of the painting. Strangely enough, there is a physical element intertwined with the painting. It shakes loose an emotional element within the viewer.”

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Author:Luc Tuymans

“My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.”

Want Painting Viewers

Author:Ken Danby

“The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.”

May Painting Bounds Engagement Viewers Epistemology

Author:Guido Molinari

“I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around.”

Way Ideas Painting Viewers

Author:Joseph Raffael

“There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white space where you can get into it.”

Space White Painting Viewers Entry Open Spaces White Space

Author:Norbert Bisky

“You tell the big lie by carefully selecting only the small, isolated truths, linking them in such a way that that advance the bigger lie by painting a picture inside the viewer's head. The Ascended High Master of this Dark Art is Noam Chomsky.”

Way Art Bigs Lying Dark Painting Masters Art Is Bigger Isolated Viewers Painting A Picture Dark Art

Author:Bill Whittle

“Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my imagination on to the viewer, even the first human being. I think first and then imagine some scenes. Then I go out and look for them. Or I re-create these images with my camera. I love photography because photography is the most believable medium. Painting can lie, but photography never lies: that is what people used to believe.”

“Seurat and Signac mixed paintings with the dry and abstract laws of science. This approach, in my opinion, usually strays from the purpose of art in general. Because it means that one cannot expect from an artifact, that is created with mathematical laws, to establish an improbable and irrational relationship between the work and the viewer.”

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Author:Guity Novin

“A piece of art - this goes for a painting or a sculpture or a book or whatever - really shouldn't have to do with the set of expectations that the viewer or the audience or the reader brings to that work. It should just have to do with how they interpret it and whether they like it or not.”

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Author:Max Kellerman

“Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language.”

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Author:Mike Svob

“Self-painting is a further development of painting. The pictorial surface has lost its function as sole expressive support. It was led back to its origins, the wall, the object, the living being, the human body. By incorporating my body as expressive support, occurrences arise as a result, the course of which the camera records and the viewer can experience”

Humans Self Body Courses Lost Results Support Records Objects Painting Wall Development Function Cameras Surface Arise Sole Viewers Human Body Expressive Pictorial Incorporating

Author:Gunter Brus

“Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.”

Should Mind Painting Viewers Incomplete

Author:Russell Chatham

“I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to operate in that way on the viewer.”

People Way Painting Get Away Viewers Get Real

Author:Julian Schnabel

“I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.”

Want Painting Take Me Viewers Somewhere Else

Author:Julian Schnabel

“If I were making paintings of a bowl of fruit it would still be viewed through some sort of political lens, because the viewer wants to create a type of narrative around the political theme when they look at work depicting black and brown models.”

Ifs Want Looks Stills Political Black Painting Type Models Fruit Narrative Theme Brown Bowls Viewers Lenses

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“There's quite obviously the desire to open the rule sets that allow for inclusion or disclusion. I think that my hope would be that my work set up certain type of precedent, that allowed for great institutions, museums and viewers to see the possibilities of painting culture to be a bit more inclusive.”

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Author:Kehinde Wiley