Doe Quote by Denis Diderot

If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

— PJ Harvey

I don't consider myself a painter. I think of myself more as an artist who uses paintings rather than simply makes them. Especially with…

— Landon Metz

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

— Jackson Pollock

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

— Max Ernst

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

— Paul Cezanne

“Painters have often taught writers how to see.”

— James Baldwin

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

— Vincent Van Gogh

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

— Claude Monet

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

— Caspar David Friedrich

There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing.

— Marcel Duchamp

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

— Elia Kazan

I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.

— Lee Krasner