Both Quote by Jasper Johns

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer…

— Jasper Johns

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

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

— Pablo Picasso

I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

— Raoul Dufy

If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you…

— Richard Schmid

You can squint and see something else, or something will come forward in the paint. You'll always see something else.

— Polly Allen Mellen

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

— Ali Banisadr

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

— John Dyer

I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it.

— Janet Fish

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

— Romare Bearden

When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in…

— Ivan Eyre