Fronts 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.

— Caspar David Friedrich

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

— Caspar David Friedrich

The artist should paint not only what he sees before him, but also what he sees within him. If, however, he sees nothing within…

— Caspar David Friedrich

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

— Paul Klee

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

— Lucian Freud

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

— Paul Cezanne

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

The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.

— Max Ernst

“A painter must never be satisfied with what he sees—painting reality means surrendering to it,”

— Saša Stanišić

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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