Clear Quote by August Wilhelm von Schlegel

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by…

— Leonardo da Vinci

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

— Paul Cezanne

One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.

— Leonardo da Vinci

A clear reflection can't be seen in boiling water, same is true with a tensed mind.

— A Clear Reflection Can't Be Seen In Boiling Water

Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.

— Jean-Luc Godard

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

— Lucian Freud

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must…

— Virginia Woolf

The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself…

— Leonardo da Vinci

It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.

— Bridget Riley

When one is painting one does not think.

— Raphael