Faces Quote by John Edgar Park

The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd that create…

— Colin Blakemore

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

— Saša Stanišić

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

— Andre Malraux

The real subject of every painting is light.

— Claude Monet

A painting is complete when it has the shadows of a god.

— Rembrandt

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

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

— Pablo Picasso

“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

Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it.…

— Walter J. Phillips

The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which…

— Paul Cezanne

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

— Caspar David Friedrich

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

— Paul Klee