Believe Quote by Gerhard Richter

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

— Salvador Dali

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

— Titian

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.

— Russell Chatham

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

— Lucian Freud

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

— Lucian Freud

The real subject of every painting is light.

— Claude Monet

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it.…

— Walter J. Phillips

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable…

— Lucian Freud

The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.

— Leonardo da Vinci