Glances Quote by Peter Webber

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

— Ken Danby

I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.

— Julian Schnabel

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

— Joseph Raffael

You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more you look…

— Cecily Brown

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

— Philip Guston

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

The paintings have a lot to do with the idea of seeing and doing, and the relationship between your hand and your eye, and…

— Malcolm Morley

Whatever art is, it is no longer something primarily to be looked at. Stared at, perhaps, but not primarily looked at

— Anonymous

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

— Edouard Manet

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

— Alberto Giacometti