Audience Quote by Scott Avett

Painting is a solitary act for me; I don't need anyone around to make paintings.

— Danny Fox

There's actually a disdain for the conversation about audience in the art world. Artist to artist, if you say, "What do you think about…

— Eric Fischl

I've never done much to try to build an audience.

— David Berman

I have never been much of a painter.

— Christian Marclay

I never worked at painting as if it were a job; it was always out of interest or for fun, a desire to try…

— Gerhard Richter

The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers.

— LeRoy Neiman

I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I…

— Tom Wesselmann

It wasn't really until after I got out of art school that I realized that I'd been doing that sort of for the audience,…

— John Currin

I was always very... impatient about showing my paintings to people.

— Julian Schnabel

I don't paint so that people will understand me, I paint to show what a particular scene looks like.

— J. M. W. Turner

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

— James Broughton

My passion for painting is so sacred and personal to me.

— Heart Evangelista