Arne Glimcher Quotes

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

I like to think of an image as different from a photo.

I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, This is real, too.

The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe.

It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding us of the deep architectonic forms of space and thought.

I try to find the picture, not create it.

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

With sculpting, nothing is cloudy or mystical. It's just about this object, and if you're trying to depict reality, and you do it well, then the outcome is the truth.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.

For 'Picture This,' I wanted it to be a drawing book that didn't have any instructions about drawing, beyond the real simple stuff you'd find like in a Bazooka bubblegum wrapper, or in 'Highlights' magazine. I just wanted it to be feelings about looking and seeing and pictures.

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

Photography helps people to see.

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.

Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.

I know that some filmmakers strive for a kind of naturalistic approach, but you're never going to capture something that's really natural - just the simple fact that you choose to put a frame around something means that you've already chosen one particular thing to put more attention on.