Attention Quote by Bridget Riley

Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly…

— Joshua L. Goldberg

It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.

— Bridget Riley

Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think…

— Helen Mirren

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

I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment…

— May Sarton

The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.

— Leonardo da Vinci

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

— Paul Cezanne

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front…

— Leonardo da Vinci

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that they make…

— Lucian Freud

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by…

— Leonardo da Vinci

That's what painting does; it organizes vision in a certain way or suggests that certain things be paid attention to and certain other things…

— Jasper Johns

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

— Lucian Freud