Ideas Quote by Marcel Duchamp

I was interested in ideas, not in visual products. I wanted to put painting again in the service of the mind.

— Marcel Duchamp

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

— Marcel Duchamp

I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which…

— George Frederic Watts

You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.

— Alex Katz

Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting.

— William Klein

Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.

— John Baldessari

I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.

— Mary Quant

I had so many ideas that I wanted to get out at once that it led to simple little drawings and paintings.

— Neil Farber

MS Paint was my creative outlet for many years.

— Alexandra Petri

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Painting is another form of thinking.

— Gerhard Richter

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

— Max Ernst