Canvas Quote by William Baziotes

What most paintings do is give you a path for your eye to move around. The painting actually tells your eye, go here, now…

— David Salle

It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.

— Bridget Riley

When there's a painting in the room, my eye goes right to it. It's like if you go into a bar and there's a…

— Joe Bradley

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

— Ali Banisadr

Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.

— Paul Kane

The painting is usually finished before you are.

— Rex Brandt

The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.

— Marion Milner

A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.

— Rembrandt

A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it…

— Pablo Picasso

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

The eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed and soothed,…

— Bridget Riley

There are certain times when a painting accelerates beyond you, and you have to try and understand and catch up with it.

— Nigel Cooke