Forever Quote by Agnes Martin

My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.

— Ken Danby

I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.

— Julian Schnabel

I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings.

— Richard Schmid

You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

— Philip Guston

“SOME PAINTINGS become famous because, being durable, they are viewed by successive generations, in each of which are likely to be found a few…

— Aldo Leopold

The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent.…

— Squeak Carnwath

What painting is, is exactly what people see.

— Robert Ryman

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking…

— Brian Eno

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

— Richard Pousette-Dart

My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and…

— Katherine Dunn

I don’t like to talk about what my paintings mean since they are so personal, so I like to leave it up to the…

— Lori Earley