Bedroom Quote by Jules Olitski

I have the '77 Million Paintings' running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I'll look up from what I'm doing and…

— Brian Eno

Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through…

— Paul McCartney

Paint right into the darkness. While painting in these conditions the mind shifts gears, engaging the unconscious. Unique 'insights' happen in the dark.

— Allison Mackie

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

— Roland Barthes

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

— Philip Guston

I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it.

— Janet Fish

I think there has to be an interesting transformative process between your perception of reality and making the paintings. If you are just trying…

— Susan Rothenberg

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

— Keith Haring

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get…

— Grandma Moses

All I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can…

— Frank Stella

It wasn't really until after I got out of art school that I realized that I'd been doing that sort of for the audience,…

— John Currin

The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I would approach…

— Julie Mehretu