Art Quote by Caspar David Friedrich

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing…

— Caspar David Friedrich

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

— Caspar David Friedrich

If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

— Caspar David Friedrich

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

— Paul Klee

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what he is…

— Edgar Degas

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world…

— Lady Bird Johnson

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.

— Edgar Degas

“The painter is not simply someone who looks and who sees. Above all, the artist is someone who exposes a personal vision by rendering…

— Marcel Paquet

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

“Art in painting should consist only of the representation of things that are visible and tangible.”

— Gustave Courbet

“Painters must want to paint above all else. If the artist in front of the canvas begins to wonder how much he will sell…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi