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Often, I find it really hard to see what I'm doing when I'm in the thick of things. I can get too precious and…

— Cecily Brown

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

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

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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

— Peter Webber

I started hiding my paintings in certain ways, like behind panes of glass for example. Then, instead of hiding them I did something quite…

— Oliver Jeffers

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

— Ken Danby

I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.

— Julian Schnabel

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

— Ali Banisadr

The interesting thing is that in everyday life, I fail to see the most ordinary things. I often stumble and sometimes I even fall…

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

This morning I got up early and I was glazing the paintings and they just looked so beautiful. I had a private moment of…

— Caio Fonseca

When you are painting you should take a flat mirror and often look at your work within it, and it will then be seen…

— Leonardo da Vinci