Artist Quote by Charles Webster Hawthorne

What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.

— Audrey Flack

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

— Martin Mull

I can't paint the way they want me to paint and they know that too

— Rembrandt

Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?

— Anonymous

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

— Robert Henri

My job is to paint what I see, not what I know.

— J. M. W. Turner

“Paint what you know, especially if it looks like something you shouldn't know.”

— Andrew Levy

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

— Hannah More

Our normal expectations about reality are created by a social consensus. We are taught how to see and understand the world. The trick of…

— Carlos Castaneda

Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.

— August Strindberg

Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously,…

— Aldous Huxley

Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.

— Vincent Van Gogh