Fabricate Quote by Gerhard Richter

“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 has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and…

— Bertrand Russell

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

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

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front…

— Leonardo da Vinci

He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has…

— John Ruskin

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

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

— Pablo Picasso

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the…

— Anais Nin

The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming

— Lucian Freud

The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.

— Max Ernst