Artist Quote by Rosson Crow

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

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

— Joseph Raffael

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

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

— Ken Danby

I am very conscious of the viewer because that's where the art takes place. My work really strives to put the viewer in a…

— Jeff Koons

Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

— Jeff Koons

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

— Julian Schnabel

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 want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio.

— Robert Rauschenberg

I want a painting to be difficult to do. The more obstacles, obstructions, problems - if they don't overwhelm - the better. I would…

— Richard Diebenkorn

It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very…

— William Baziotes

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

— Peter Webber