Eye Quote by Malcolm Morley

The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.

— Marion Milner

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

The painting is always conceived as the linear record of a rhythmic gesture: it is a graph of a dance executed by the hand.…

— Roger Fry

Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.

— Paul Kane

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

— Peter Webber

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

— Paul Cezanne

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

— Ken Danby

What most paintings do is give you a path for your eye to move around. The painting actually tells your eye, go here, now…

— David Salle

The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your painter's eye…

— Richard Schmid

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

— Julian Schnabel

You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge, and your…

— Mike Svob

What painting is, is exactly what people see.

— Robert Ryman