Art Quote by Sol LeWitt

From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than the painter…

— Joshua Reynolds

The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.

— Agnes Martin

An artist's work is a synthesis of much more than the work of other creators.

— Phoebe Gloeckner

The artwork had very little to do with the thought process, and the writing too, for that matter. What happens, happens, and it happens…

— Jules Feiffer

A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions.

— Rembrandt

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

— Michelangelo

I'm not the kind of artist who has an idea and then carries it out; it's more like I find what the idea was…

— Cecily Brown

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the…

— Jean M. Auel

The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.

— Jean Dubuffet

In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I find that it is important to work slowly. Anyone who looks at such a canvas will follow the same path the artist took,…

— Georges Braque

The creative process obtains in all creative acts. So if I'm painting suddenly I'll see something that I didn't see before.

— Annie Dillard