Believe Quote by Ellen Gallagher

My artwork is in order to seduce people into thinking.

— Genesis P-Orridge

I try to create paintings that are a window for the imagination. If people look at my work and are reminded of the way…

— Thomas Kinkade

I love the way painting is so full of illusionistic possibilities.

— Jessica Stockholder

I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting harder to…

— Claude Monet

I make art to figure out what I'm thinking, not to tell people what I think.

— Glenn Ligon

I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.

— El Greco

The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and…

— Yves Tanguy

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

— Alex Katz

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

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

Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through…

— Paul McCartney

This morning I got up early and I was glazing the paintings and they just looked so beautiful. I had a private moment of…

— Caio Fonseca