Inspirational Quote by J. M. W. Turner

Paint what you see, not what you know.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

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

— Edouard Manet

I paint what I think, not what I see.

— Pablo Picasso

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

— Frida Kahlo

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

— John Dyer

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

— Jackson Pollock

All I can say is that when I paint, I am looking at things that are in the world.

— Elizabeth Neel

I paint paintings of people.

— Amy Sherald

When you paint things exactly as they are, you don't show people anything that they couldn't see for themselves; you're telling them what they…

— Paul Strisik

You don't paint what you see, you paint what you feel.

— Romare Bearden

I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on beyond.

— Grandma Moses

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

— Edvard Munch