Eye Quote by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

— Honore de Balzac

O, how much simpler things would be If eyes could paint or brush could see.

— Robert Breault

Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting.

— Graham Sutherland

Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.

— Paul Kane

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

— Balthus

I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out.

— Kathe Kollwitz

I have two pairs of eyes – one to paint and one to take photographs.

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

— Pablo Picasso

We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in…

— Helen Frankenthaler

If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not…

— Joshua Reynolds

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

— Alberto Giacometti

“Once you have a blank canvas in front of your eyes, you can think about how you want to paint it.”

— Dr Prem Jagyasi