Art Quote by Ellsworth Kelly

Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

— Pliny the Younger

Painting is... a correspondence between what you are and what you see. It's a moment when something is holding together in such a way…

— Milton Resnick

My paintings and sculptures, at first glance, may appear to be purely aesthetic; closer up, they are not. They hold a feeling of tentativeness,…

— Budd Hopkins

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

— Cy Twombly

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

The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.

— Zaha Hadid

I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more you look…

— Cecily Brown

I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.

— Julian Schnabel

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

— Agnes Martin

Modern paintings often seem to have been made quickly, by comparison with the paintings of earlier centuries, and that seems to give us the…

— James Elkins

The painting is usually finished before you are.

— Rex Brandt

I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.

— Peter Webber