Art Quote by Alfred Stieglitz

What really surprised me was how strange my paintings are anyway. To me, it's like, "Let's paint some portraits and some objects. Don't make…

— Nigel Cooke

If you don't know how to look, you'll end up putting down the wrong things, which only dilutes or cancels the power of your…

— George L. Carlson

From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that's…

— Margaret Kilgallen

All I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can…

— Frank Stella

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines.

— Agnes Martin

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

— Philip Guston

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

— John Dryden

Draw what you see.

— Arne Glimcher

I can look at my early work and see what a pained struggle it was to draw what I was drawing. I was trying…

— Daniel Clowes

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

— William Scott

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

— Ken Danby

I can only draw what I see.

— Claude Monet