Away Quote by Robert Irwin

What most paintings do is give you a path for your eye to move around. The painting actually tells your eye, go here, now…

— David Salle

Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.

— Marion Milner

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

— Paul Kane

The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade…

— Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer…

— Jasper Johns

I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture away about…

— William Baziotes

You can squint and see something else, or something will come forward in the paint. You'll always see something else.

— Polly Allen Mellen

If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't…

— Mandy Patinkin

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

— Yoko Ono

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

When there's a painting in the room, my eye goes right to it. It's like if you go into a bar and there's a…

— Joe Bradley