Desire Quote by Anonymous

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

— Nathan Oliveira

Being a creative person, I'm naturally drawn towards art of any kind. But I'm more attracted to paintings because they radiate an aura of…

— Dimple Kapadia

People ask me, 'What happened in your life that might have pushed you as an artist to get to where you are today?' I…

— Jim Lee

My paintings and sculptures, at first glance, may appear to be purely aesthetic; closer up, they are not. They hold a feeling of tentativeness,…

— Budd Hopkins

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter

— Lucian Freud

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

— Richard P. Feynman

I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I…

— Tom Wesselmann

I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting harder to…

— Claude Monet

I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I…

— William S. Burroughs

Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to…

— Philip Guston

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

— John Baldessari

When I paint figures it's never the idea of painting the beauty of the figure, it is using the figure to get across how…

— Jason Shawn Alexander