Art Quote by Caio Fonseca

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 start out making my paintings for me. I don't see it as a form of communication. Until, of course, after they are done…

— John Lurie

I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more you look…

— Cecily Brown

My paintings are so legible, I feel guilty.

— Doris McCarthy

I try to create paintings that are a window for the imagination. If people look at my work and are reminded of the way…

— Thomas Kinkade

Lots of artists who paint have the experience to one degree or another... where their thinking doesn't precede their doing... It's a funny thing,…

— Philip Guston

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

I was always very... impatient about showing my paintings to people.

— Julian Schnabel

You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge, and your…

— Mike Svob

I think there has to be an interesting transformative process between your perception of reality and making the paintings. If you are just trying…

— Susan Rothenberg

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

— Ali Banisadr

Each painting, I feel like I kind of might have gotten something. If I feel like I totally got it, there's probably something wrong…

— Damian Loeb