Eye Quote by Yves Tanguy

You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.

— Alex Katz

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

My approach to painting doesn't involve any heavy thinking about how am I going to present this, what am I going to do.

— Rolf Harris

A painting has its own existence and reality, and I make changes freely to meet the painting's needs. This sometimes takes me in another…

— Mary Beth McKenzie

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

— Salvador Dali

I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything in my…

— Cy Twombly

Usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow…

— Roy Lichtenstein

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

— Ali Banisadr

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about.…

— Jackson Pollock

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make.

— Gerhard Richter