Artist Quote by Edgar Degas

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

— Marcel Duchamp

Every good painter paints what he is.

— Jackson Pollock

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

— Pablo Picasso

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

— Paul Klee

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

— Pablo Picasso

If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.

— James Whistler

The good painter is the one who buries a color every day.

— Roger Bissiere

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

— Caspar David Friedrich

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

— Lucian Freud

Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore?

— Randall Jarrell

“A painter must never be satisfied with what he sees—painting reality means surrendering to it,”

— Saša Stanišić