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An artist should have more than two eyes.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

It is the first vision that counts. The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in…

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade…

— Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

It is essential that the painter should develop not only his eyes, but also his soul, so that it too may be capable of…

— Wassily Kandinsky

In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see…

— Vikram Seth

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

— Paul Cezanne

The eye is the best of artists.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

— Wassily Kandinsky

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

The cross-eyed fool sees one lamp as two; The vision and the viewer are one

— Saraha