Air Quote by Chuck Close

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking…

— Brian Eno

Art is a direct reflection of the life you live. What you experience comes out in your work.

— Dianne Reeves

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

— Lawrence Weiner

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

— Edward Bond

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

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

— Robert Rauschenberg

One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every time one…

— Ernst Gombrich

The creative process obtains in all creative acts. So if I'm painting suddenly I'll see something that I didn't see before.

— Annie Dillard

I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had…

— Vik Muniz

For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and…

— Domenico Gnoli

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

— Agnes Martin

When you're so drawn to art, to making pictures and looking at art, it's really all you want to think about.

— Don Ed Hardy