Certain Quote by Pablo Picasso

If I make a painting, it should be seen for what it's set out to do too. A lot of the things that I…

— Ken Done

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory,…

— Philip Guston

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

— Alex Katz

I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a…

— Eugene Delacroix

Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think…

— Helen Mirren

A painting has its own existence and reality, and I make changes freely to meet the painting's needs. This sometimes takes me in another…

— Mary Beth McKenzie

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a painting is;…

— Philip Guston

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel,…

— Claude Monet

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

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

— Pablo Picasso

To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state…

— Robert Irwin