Art Quote by Gerhard Richter

My job is to paint what I see, not what I know.

— J. M. W. Turner

I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

— Edvard Munch

Draw places you have seen from memory. I used to paint things I had glimpsed through windows while riding in the elevated train.

— John French Sloan

I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.

— John Dyer

I paint pictures which do not exist and which I would like to see.

— Leonor Fini

I’m past photographing to see what things look like photographed.

— Sally Mann

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

— Raoul Dufy

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

— Edouard Manet

I am moved, shaken, and when it is all over, I look at wonder at what is written or painted.

— Robert Kanigher

I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love.

— John Dyer

I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say.

— Burt Young

It's hard for me to find people to paint. There has got to be something about them that only I can see.

— Amy Sherald