Flat Surface Quotes

I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it.

Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat.

I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.

Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.

At least I thought it was a wall. It sure felt like one. It was hard. It was flat. It stretched out on either side of me. You know... wall.

No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes.

The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane

I see the carpet reflecting that narratological structure of the storytelling, with Scheherazade as the outside frame story on the outside, with the stories woven on the inside. It's also demonstrative of the infinity of it, with no beginning and no end. The carpet is also a kind of metonym for cinema, this idea that the flat surface carries a terrific depth of imaginative field while remaining totally flat.

Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface.