Deception Quote by Robert Genn

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

— Ken Danby

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

— Joseph Raffael

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of…

— William Scott

I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.

— Peter Webber

I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to operate in…

— Julian Schnabel

What painting is, is exactly what people see.

— Robert Ryman

A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension…

— Wayne Thiebaud

In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear into the…

— Bill Henson

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

— Philip Guston

I don’t like to talk about what my paintings mean since they are so personal, so I like to leave it up to the…

— Lori Earley

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

— Georgia O'Keeffe

The paintings are not just on flat walls - you have these enormous niches, bulges and protrusions, as well as stalactites and stalagmites. The…

— Werner Herzog