Artist Quote by Felix Feneon

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

— Paul Klee

Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again.

— Walter J. Phillips

Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“As he went about to the other workrooms he realised that every painting was a self-portrait even when it was a still life or…

— Irving Stone

He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties which none…

— Claude Debussy

“Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the painter who dares and who has broken the…

— Vincent van Gogh

Nobody could paint eyes like El Greco and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane.

— Walter Keane

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

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

— Saša Stanišić

The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide the attention,…

— Joshua Reynolds

“If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.”

— Salvador Dalí

The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never…

— John Edgar Park