Competent Quote by Jenny Holzer

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

— Georges Braque

The drawings that I show - the drawings that I present to people are finished works in themselves. They're meant to be thought of…

— Robert Barry

I make art to figure out what I'm thinking, not to tell people what I think.

— Glenn Ligon

I think I get into the paint and create for others with the best of them.

— De'Aaron Fox

I do very, very, very simple, skimpy doodles, nothing too committed. Because people tend to fall in love if they like it - if…

— Dave McKean

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

— Pablo Picasso

I paint. A lot of people don't know that.

— The-Dream

Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't many constraints…

— Raymond Pettibon

I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which…

— George Frederic Watts

Lots of artists who paint have the experience to one degree or another... where their thinking doesn't precede their doing... It's a funny thing,…

— Philip Guston

I am only an artist, my job is to make drawings not to make sense.

— William Kentridge

I think when you work alone - the way I do it, anyway - you could sort of liken it to painting, where there's…

— Lindsey Buckingham