Knows Quote by Alice Neel

I never think about actual things when I'm painting. I'm not thinking, "I'm going to put a person here, a tree here and a…

— Ali Banisadr

If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you…

— Richard Schmid

I paint what I think, not what I see.

— Pablo Picasso

If you follow the process of a thought - any thought, not just about art - the thought changes. It has to do with…

— Ross Bleckner

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory,…

— Philip Guston

I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel,…

— Claude Monet

Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first.

— Richard Schmid

You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.

— Alex Katz

I think about women and their thoughts and ideas, and I suppose when I'm painting them I'm getting to be them, in a sense.…

— Chantal Joffe

I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.

— William Baziotes

I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which…

— George Frederic Watts

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

— Ali Banisadr