Areas Quote by Thomas Kinkade

Since childhood, I have been painting, for no special reason, numerous dots and nets, drawing from the hallucinations that seem to appear endlessly. I…

— Yayoi Kusama

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent…

— Susan Rothenberg

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

— Ken Danby

There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.

— Robert Henri

You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.

— Damien Hirst

My painting is visible images that conceal nothing... they evoke mystery. Mystery means nothing. It is unknowable.

— Rene Magritte

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

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

— Agnes Martin

I couldn’t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started studying squares,…

— Bridget Riley

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

— Julian Schnabel

Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness,…

— Leonardo da Vinci

The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your painter's eye…

— Richard Schmid