Bed Quote by Jackson Pollock

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

Some of the pictures are truly mysterious to me.. which is why I so often say publicly that I don't know or don't care…

— Susan Rothenberg

If paintings are so important - worth so much, reproduced, cherished, and visited so often - then isn't it troubling that we can hardly…

— James Elkins

I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to operate in…

— Julian Schnabel

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

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

— Freddie Mercury

For the first time in six or seven thousand years, many people of goodwill find themselves confused about art. They want to enjoy it…

— Barbara Holland

I can't believe that 100% of the people who stand in art galleries looking at art are thinking, 'Well, here I am, looking at…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

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

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

— Barnett Newman

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

— Peter Webber