Consciousness Quote by Douglas Portway

What really interests me about capturing and suspending movement is that I get to experience something invisible and inaudible, as elusive and fleeting as…

— James Nares

Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in.

— Nigel Cooke

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

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

— Agnes Martin

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

— Mark Tobey

“Painters must want to paint above all else. If the artist in front of the canvas begins to wonder how much he will sell…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I slowly dismantled the act of painting, to consider the possibility that no-thing ever really transcends its immediate environment.

— Robert Irwin

Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible…

— Pablo Picasso

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

— Max Ernst

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.

— John Constable

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

— Irving Stone

Your painting is a measure of your mind.

— Millard Sheets