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“Painting comes to reality through illusion. An illusion that allows us to make a leap of faith; to believe. To believe in a blue that can be the wing of a bug or a thought. It makes our invisible visible.”

Believe Reality Painting Illusion Blue Wings Invisible Visible Leap Bugs Leap Of Faith

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

“Many contemporary painters feel that their landscapes come from within and are brought to the surface and given form as a result of various stimuli. The artist's internal world is waiting to be evoked by whatever means the artist finds most productive, and... this world is just as important as the outer, visible world.”

World Feels Mean Important Form Artist Given Waiting Results This World Painting Various Surface Contemporary Painter Landscape Visible Productive Internals Stimulus

Author:Edward Betts

“Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely physical language, the words of which consist of all visible objects. An object which is abstract, not visible, non-existent, is not within the realm of painting.”

Art Real Language Objects Painting Realms Abstract Visible Concrete Representation

Author:Gustave Courbet

“There's a spectrum of possibilities. You can underline the bass, or not at all. You can create something that is well-anchored or that is floating and never arriving. You can make a melodic line dominant or barely visible. The conducting gesture is akin to painting or sculpture.”

Wells Lines Possibility Painting Visible Gestures Dominant Floating Sculpture Spectrum Bass Arriving Conducting

Author:Laurence Equilbey

“This is the essential distinction--even opposition--between the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, thefilm objectively. However highly we rate the function of the scenario writer--in actual practice it is rated very low--we must recognize that the film is not transposed directly and freely from the mind by means of a docile medium like paint, but must be cut piece-meal out of the lumbering material of the actual visible world.”

World Mind Mean Film Practice Pieces Cutting Painting Materials Essentials Lows Function Paint Rate Mediums Cinema Meals Visible Distinction Opposition Scenarios Docile

Author:Herbert Read

“Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.”

Artist Left Painting Finished Visible Finishing Unfinished

Author:Pliny the Younger

“My painting is visible images that conceal nothing... they evoke mystery. Mystery means nothing. It is unknowable.”

Mean Mystery Painting Visible Evoke

Author:Rene Magritte

“As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of the virtuosi, but as the visible record, lying about the house, of an attempt to solve a definite problem in painting.”

Thinking Children Problem Lying Artist House Growing Up Records Growing Painting Products Solve Finished Visible Admiration Exposed Definite Children Growing Up Growing Children

Author:Robin G. Collingwood

“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