Backgrounds Quote by Kehinde Wiley

It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture.

— Winston Churchill

I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around.

— Joseph Raffael

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

— Bridget Riley

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. It was in that space, paradoxically,…

— Bridget Riley

The backgrounds by design are a very key part of the conversation, because I want a kind of fight or pressure to exist between…

— Kehinde Wiley

What I aspire to is to have the viewer look directly at the subject, as if they're looking through a window at the real…

— Chris Jordan

I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to…

— Willem de Kooning

Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you…

— Joe Bradley

The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas... Without taking the journey, the spectator has really missed…

— Mark Rothko

No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head about how…

— Anne Bronte

By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting.

— Mike Svob

Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

— Steven Saylor