Artist Quote by Kehinde Wiley

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent…

— Susan Rothenberg

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

— Agnes Martin

I have no way of knowing what you are going to feel when you look at one of my paintings; I only know what…

— Danny Fox

Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they…

— William Gaddis

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 paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.

— Franz Kline

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

— Alberto Giacometti

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

— Ken Danby

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

— Julian Schnabel

It's absolutely irrelevant what galleries and critics and people who buy your paintings think. They just don't have any possible idea of what happens…

— Milton Resnick

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Art is supposed to hold up a mirror to its audience and ask, 'What do you believe? What do you think? What do you…

— Chris Sullivan