Color Quote by Morris Graves

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

Paint ideas, paint thought.

— Howard Pyle

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

— Marcel Duchamp

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

— Marcel Duchamp

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

— Alex Katz

I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting harder to…

— Claude Monet

My work is a fusion of personal experiences and influences - moody atmospheres, victorian-inspired couture, and timeless elements all laced with clandestine symbolism. The…

— Lori Earley

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

— Paul Bourget

I do not plan any painting, but begin with layers of textures and colors. As I layer the colors, something is suggested to me…

— Katherine Dunn

All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life,…

— Caravaggio

Painting is something that takes place among the colors.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Lots of artists who paint have the experience to one degree or another... where their thinking doesn't precede their doing... It's a funny thing,…

— Philip Guston