Art Quote by Edgar Alwin Payne

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

— Georges Seurat

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.

— Edgar Degas

From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than the painter…

— Joshua Reynolds

Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.

— Marc Davis

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

I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw…

— Irving Stone

Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects…

— Paul Cezanne

What I think confuses things is when people approach painting as an inherently expressive or personal medium. We still tend to have this expectation…

— Landon Metz

The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry... every reader making out the detail…

— Joshua Reynolds

Painters make paintings, but it takes a representative of the art-world to make a work of art.

— Richard Wollheim

Of all the creative acts performed by the artist, the most directly legible is drawing... it is the act that is most directly and…

— Rene Huyghe

Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can…

— Al Jourgensen