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To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.

— J. E. H. MacDonald

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

— Paul Cezanne

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

— Philip Guston

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

— Roy Lichtenstein

What has reasoning to do with painting?

— William Blake

To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

— Robert Henri

Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.

— Claes Oldenburg

Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in…

— Francisco Goya

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

— Leonardo da Vinci

When you paint things exactly as they are, you don't show people anything that they couldn't see for themselves; you're telling them what they…

— Paul Strisik

I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with…

— Gerhard Richter