Art Quote by Cecily Brown

I don't really know where I got my artists idea. The scraps of what I remember do not explain to me where it came…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

— Vincent Van Gogh

If you do not start with the idea, you are creating fine art - its personal, but it tends not to communicate.

— Seymour Chwast

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

— Alex Katz

At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it's a challenge to pull any idea together.…

— James Dean

The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.

— Agnes Martin

One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it…

— Anish Kapoor

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

— Jasper Johns

All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist…

— Sol LeWitt

Ideas in art may be quite evident, and sometimes they're hidden. Sometimes they're simple, and sometimes they're quite complex. Great works of art can…

— Philip Taaffe

In my eyes, making art is very often about something that you don't know.

— Lawrence Weiner

Part of the artist's journey is fulfilling your own personal desires and everybody has different ideas about things they'd like to accomplish creatively.

— Kim Wayans