Artist Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has…

— Pablo Picasso

“Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.”

— Pablo Picasso

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.

— Gerhard Richter

I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

— Alice Neel

If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his paintings he would faint.

— Jacqueline Roque

Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

— Georg Baselitz

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

— Robert Breault

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

— Caspar David Friedrich

The motivation to paint seems more pure, or at least more personal, when the artist is doing it for herself.

— Liza Campbell

A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.

— Peter Greenaway

The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about…

— Odilon Redon

She can paint a lovley picture, but the story has a twist...her paint brush is a razor...and her canvouse is her wrist.

— Alicia Tschantre