Ifs Quote by Ivan Eyre

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

— Philip Guston

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

— Edouard Manet

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

— Julian Schnabel

I paint what I think, not what I see.

— Pablo Picasso

If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you…

— Richard Schmid

All I can say is that when I paint, I am looking at things that are in the world.

— Elizabeth Neel

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a painting is;…

— Philip Guston

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

— Peter Webber

I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

— Edvard Munch

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

— Ali Banisadr

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

— Ken Danby

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

— Alberto Giacometti