“Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.”
“Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.”
“Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible.”
“I shall call modern that art which ... presents the fact that the unpresentable exists. To make visible that there is something which can be conceived and which can neither be seen nor made visible.”
“Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.”
“Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible – and I make use of painting to render thoughts visible.”