"If you could say it in words, there'd be no reason to paint." Edward Hopper

"I shut my eyes in order to see" Paul Gauguin

"I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do" Francis Bacon