Ideas Quote by Robert Motherwell

I began in 1976, with small abstract paintings that allowed me to do what I had never let myself do: put something down at…

— Gerhard Richter

I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create.

— Barbara Hepworth

I start by thinking I'm going to make use of all possibilities without troubling any longer about problems when something starts to be art.…

— Jan Dibbets

I think all my pictures are ideas, and they're ideas made into images.

— Bert Stern

A photo is like a map, a way of giving me a foot into a kind of reality I want... I'm not trying to…

— Peter Doig

Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

— Adolph Gottlieb

If you do not start with the idea, you are creating fine art - its personal, but it tends not to communicate.

— Seymour Chwast

I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting.

— Dennis Hopper

The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if…

— Georges Braque

I wanted to jeopardize my own image. With my image I had already produced art pieces such as videos of photographs.

— Orlan

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to…

— Sigmar Polke

I think everybody starts out by seeing a few works of art and wanting to do something like them. You want to understand what…

— Gerhard Richter