Artist Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

— Paul Klee

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.

— Caspar David Friedrich

Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing…

— Caspar David Friedrich

“Art in painting should consist only of the representation of things that are visible and tangible.”

— Gustave Courbet

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has…

— Pablo Picasso

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.

— Edgar Degas

“A painter must never be satisfied with what he sees—painting reality means surrendering to it,”

— Saša Stanišić

“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

Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

— Francis Bacon

I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a…

— Eugene Delacroix

The artist should paint not only what he sees before him, but also what he sees within him. If, however, he sees nothing within…

— Caspar David Friedrich