Clarity Quote by Lionel Suggs

“Once you have a blank canvas in front of your eyes, you can think about how you want to paint it.”

— Dr Prem Jagyasi

It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.

— Bridget Riley

“Painting is the language of the unconscious. It is the language of visualization. It is the language of children. Children think in pictures, hence…

— Osho

“I paint the beautiful pictures in my mind with words.”

— Graylin Fox

“You must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination.”

— Seth

“The best works of art are never innocuous: they alter the viewer's perceptual predictions. It is only when the patterns of our vision are…

— Siri Hustvedt

“He laughed. “What’s to say? Great paintings—people flock to see them, they draw crowds, they’re reproduced endlessly on coffee mugs and mouse pads and…

— Donna Tartt

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

— Peter Webber

Now, at a moment when photography is so pervasive that it's been forced to grapple with its own identity and look inward, it feels…

— Cynthia Daignault

“I wish I could paint the picture inside my mind for you”

— Luke Wood

“..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.”

— Vincent van Gogh

“But if all my paintings were imitations of the images in my brain, then the images in my brain had always been only echoes…

— Kailin Gow