Abstract Quote by E. J. Hughes

I believe that one should not think too much about nature when painting, at least not during the painting's conception. The colour sketch should…

— Paula Modersohn-Becker

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

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.

— Theodore Robinson

Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has…

— Edvard Munch

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

— Edward Hopper

Art is not nature... There was a lot more to be got out of color.

— Pierre Bonnard

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that ours is…

— John Constable

Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.

— Brassai

To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting.

— John Gutmann

A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily in any…

— John F. Carlson

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

— Miguel de Cervantes

The painter... will find [photography] a rapid way of making collections of studies he could otherwise obtain only with much time and trouble and,…

— Paul Delaroche