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I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.

— Chuck Close

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Agnes Martin

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

— Jasper Johns

I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work.'

— Gerhard Richter

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 the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in the first place.

— Shea Hembrey

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.

— Jasper Johns

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

— Balthus

The value of writing about art is its effect on the imagination. Paintings allow us to inhabit another culture, place, and time period, and address the issues of those time periods that resonate with our own time.

— Susan Vreeland

So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

— Caio Fonseca

✗Opposing Perspectives

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

— Barnett Newman