Appearance Quote by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but…

— Georges Braque

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.

— Arthur Boyd

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

— Caspar David Friedrich

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

— Saša Stanišić

Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for him every…

— Herwarth Walden

“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

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

— Paul Klee

Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think…

— Helen Mirren

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

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

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

— Jackson Pollock