Ernst Gombrich Quotes

Seeing depends on knowledge / And knowledge, of course, on your college / But when you are erudite and wise / What matters is to use your eyes.

Art does not copy nature - it suggests it.

All art is image making and all image making is the creation of substitutes.

The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess.

One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it.

If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro.

All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an image in terms of reality.