Doe Quote by Eugene Delacroix

The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but…

— Leonardo da Vinci

What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer…

— Sam Francis

Every good painter paints what he is.

— Jackson Pollock

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

— Pablo Picasso

The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.

— Titian

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

— Edgar Degas

It is essential that the painter should develop not only his eyes, but also his soul, so that it too may be capable of…

— Wassily Kandinsky

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as…

— Leonardo da Vinci

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

— Lucian Freud