“The excuse that the painters were documenting reality was becoming ridiculous. Photographers and film makers went far beyond them. Already it could be said that a good portrait led one to think about the painter not the model.”

“Photographers are failed painters.”

“A great portrait is always more a portrait of the painter than of the painted.”

“Though music is the chief excellence of the Neapolitans, Naples has produced some good Painters. Luca Giordano, and Salvator Rosa, were both of them born here : the latter, to judge by a ridiculous anecdote that is told of him, was a man of wit, as well as a painter.”

“In so far as it is concerned with truth that goes beyond appearance and form, art is transcendental. The consciousness of this is often a snare for the painter who is led by a false preoccupation with some literary or intellectual conception of reality into a time-conscious literary form. Nano Reid realised with the instinct of a painter that for her the whole truth existed in the head, the body, the structure of life: it lay there revealed in the form, the line, a timeless and profound reality.”

“Visitors to the expo were amused and fascinated by portrait painter Pricasso and his unique brush.”

“The only 'penile portrait painter' in the world.”

“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”

“Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?”

“[about Ad Reinhardt:].. we supported each other... He thought I was a good painter, and I thought he was a good painter.”