Born Quote by Oliver Jeffers

I'm interested in that way we perceive things, and that was part of what I was getting into in painting - the idea of…

— Kurt Wagner

I see my work as having a relationship to the visual world, not just some emotive residue of my feelings. It relates to something…

— Elizabeth Neel

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting.

— Jose Parla

Over the years, in making art, I have constantly explored issues dealing with space, time, light, and society. I am particularly interested in how…

— Olafur Eliasson

I see my work as visual meditations on the human experience and my attempts to capture the thin, otherwordly realm I believe exists between…

— Kim Hunter

It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural world, it's…

— Ansel Adams

Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains…

— John Locke

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

— Edward Tufte

My life is really a history of observing forms and taking in imagery. I don't mean in a photographic way, I mean in a…

— Jim Dine

When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a…

— Jeff Koons

Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind

— Gautama Buddha