Behave Quote by Mike Svob

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking…

— Brian Eno

I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more you look…

— Cecily Brown

The paintings have a lot to do with the idea of seeing and doing, and the relationship between your hand and your eye, and…

— Malcolm Morley

I think there has to be an interesting transformative process between your perception of reality and making the paintings. If you are just trying…

— Susan Rothenberg

Actually, you want to go into an area where you're frightened. Otherwise, you're just going to be repainting beautiful paintings, but a little duller…

— Alex Katz

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

Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will explain them.…

— Charles Demuth

I enjoy thinking about how paintings can change depending on where they are - how they look in a gallery or in relation to…

— Stephen Beal

The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.

— Guido Molinari

When I start to paint, it is real agony. I get nervous. The day before, I am already working up to it. Then I…

— Luc Tuymans

I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over…

— Thomas Cole

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

— Marion Milner