Art Quote by Freddie Mercury

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

— John Ciardi

As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.

— Paul McCartney

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed…

— Jackson Pollock

Painting should educate and enrich. Modern painting merely offers a split-second emotion: You see it, you have an instant reaction and move on. Instead,…

— Igor Babailov

I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good…

— Claude Monet

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

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

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it…

— Tom Stoppard

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended

— Robert Rauschenberg

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

— Agnes Martin