Eye Quote by Pablo Picasso

I did all the stuff that people do - film, performance, photography, pictures and words, words and pictures. In retrospect, I was trying to…

— David Salle

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that…

— Edvard Munch

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

— Agnes Martin

I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but…

— Odilon Redon

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

— Edgar Degas

I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I…

— William S. Burroughs

It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.

— James Rosenquist

If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you…

— Richard Schmid

I begin with an image of some sort, just as if you saw something out of a window, and then went to the window…

— Jesse Ball

There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I came from a background of photography so I look at details and visuals, and I see things in pictures or signs.

— Lynne Ramsay

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

— Raoul Dufy