Figures Quote by E. J. Hughes

I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like found objects…

— Dennis Hopper

The images for my works are somewhat insignificant to me. It became an exercise of variation. I only see the surface images as doodles…

— Tara Donovan

I had stopped making figures, and then I began making images of animals in nature, which was a way to introduce the figure.

— Kiki Smith

Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my…

— Hokusai

But eventually I moved the portraiture into the smaller clay things which gave them more of a caricature look to them, rather than a…

— Joe Fafard

There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.

— Robert Henri

All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for…

— Ellsworth Kelly

Unlike the photography and prints, I never catalogued, kept track of or exhibited the sketches. I sold some occasionally, but never saw myself as…

— Gerhard Richter

They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I shouldn't -…

— Claes Oldenburg

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

— Pablo Picasso

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

— Brian Selznick

I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them.

— Cy Twombly