Design Quote by Robert Genn

It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at…

— John Updike

The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and…

— Yves Tanguy

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

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

— Joseph Raffael

Artwork is not thought up in consciousness and then, as a separate phase, executed by the hand. The hand surprises us creates and solves…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.

— Bridget Riley

Painting to me is constant searching. I can see what I want, but I can't get there, and yet you have to be open…

— Jamie Wyeth

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

— Leonardo da Vinci

This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen, hiding themselves…

— Cennino Cennini

“Thus painting itself had to be able to demonstrate the desirability of what money could buy. And the visual desirability of what can be…

— John Berger

It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.

— Lucian Freud

Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.

— Paul Kane