Artist Quote by Georgia O'Keeffe

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Alex Katz

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

— Jasper Johns

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure…

— Roy Lichtenstein

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.

— Russell Chatham

Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint.

— John Marin

I was a student, and as such you generally rely on prior models of how to make art, but these were not satisfying. Then…

— Gerhard Richter

I don't work from drawings and colour sketches into a final painting. Painting, I think, today - the more immediate, the more direct -…

— Jackson Pollock

I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want to paint…

— Ellsworth Kelly

I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led…

— Matt Gonzalez

It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own...

— Paul Gauguin

When you paint things exactly as they are, you don't show people anything that they couldn't see for themselves; you're telling them what they…

— Paul Strisik