Art Quote by Albrecht Durer

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

— Lucian Freud

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable…

— Lucian Freud

It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but…

— Leonardo da Vinci

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

— Pablo Picasso

Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's…

— Francis Bacon

An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

— Raymond Chandler

“If the painter has clumsy hands, he will be apt to introduce them into his works, and so of any other part of his…

— Leonardo da Vinci

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.

— Caspar David Friedrich

The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with something that…

— Edward Betts

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

— Lucian Freud

The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.

— Leonardo da Vinci