Able Quote by Freydoon Rassouli

My paintings are about light, about the way things look in their environment and especially about how things look painted. Form, colour and space…

— Ralph Goings

My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.

— Ken Danby

I strive to express the spiritual nature of the Universe. Painting for me is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious…

— Richard Pousette-Dart

By means of the iconic, artists express their view of reality and show their understanding of the structure of reality. They see what they…

— Hans Rookmaaker

I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.

— Glenn Ligon

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

— Agnes Martin

I think there has to be an interesting transformative process between your perception of reality and making the paintings. If you are just trying…

— Susan Rothenberg

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

— Richard Pousette-Dart

I don’t like to talk about what my paintings mean since they are so personal, so I like to leave it up to the…

— Lori Earley

The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship…

— Ben Nicholson

I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to me. But…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

What inspires me to paint is life, my emotions, through my paintings I want people to understand that life isn't always happy but you…

— Heart Evangelista