Banality Quote by Doug Aitken

The creative mind doesn't have to have the whole pattern-it can have just a little piece and be able to envision the whole picture…

— Arthur Fry

I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a…

— Michael Craig-Martin

Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than…

— Ernst Haas

What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.

— Gustav Mahler

I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the…

— Milton Avery

If I have a blank piece of paper and I draw a red figure, immediately this brings sounds and shapes to my mind. I…

— Alex Abreu

I criticise these compositions by analysis but an illustration cannot be made that way - it must be made by inspiration.

— Howard Pyle

I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.

— Alex Katz

To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.

— James Schuyler

Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view. Without touching my subject I want to…

— Ernst Haas

You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

I tell people to frame the picture. Make the greatest, most perfect composition you can . . . and then take a step forward.…

— Larry Clark