Aliens Quote by Gerhard Richter

You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have…

— H. R. Giger

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

— Agnes Martin

Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort of physical…

— Julian Schnabel

So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

— Caio Fonseca

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that ours is…

— John Constable

Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.

— El Greco

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.

— John Constable

I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some…

— Chuck Close

People want to know those details. They think it gives them greater insight into a piece of art, but when they approach a painting…

— Charles de Lint

What has reasoning to do with painting?

— William Blake

I was working within a figurative representational framework, and there was a sense of reading the painting as a transparency, or truth, or autobiography,…

— Chitra Ganesh

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

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir