Entry Quote by Norbert Bisky

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

— Julian Schnabel

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. It was in that space, paradoxically,…

— Bridget Riley

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

— Ken Danby

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

— Chuck Close

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

— Bridget Riley

I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around.

— Joseph Raffael

All I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can…

— Frank Stella

I don’t like to talk about what my paintings mean since they are so personal, so I like to leave it up to the…

— Lori Earley

Art is the space between the viewer and the rectangle that hangs on the wall. Unless something of the person that created the work…

— T. Allen Lawson

Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.

— Robert Genn

I think that painting relates very neatly to inner travel and the exploration of inner worlds. With painting, I always get the impression that…

— Joe Bradley

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world…

— Lady Bird Johnson