Aesthetic Quote by David Milne

You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and his subject…

— Walter J. Phillips

It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.

— Lucian Freud

The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world... the picture... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter where it…

— Pierre Bonnard

It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in…

— Pablo Picasso

The artist is engaged constantly in building anti-environments. (And, by the way, the Courtly Love people were engaged in making love itself into an…

— Marshall McLuhan

It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at…

— John Updike

It is essential that the painter should develop not only his eyes, but also his soul, so that it too may be capable of…

— Wassily Kandinsky

The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot succeed. His…

— Walter J. Phillips

“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

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a…

— Edward Hopper

An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make…

— Robert Henri