Artist Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

“What good is it being a painter if you can't paint yourself?”

— Gregory Maguire

The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Every good painter paints what he is.

— Jackson Pollock

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.

— Leonardo da Vinci

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

— Miguel de Cervantes

That painter who has no doubts will achieve little.

— Leonardo da Vinci

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without…

— Jasper Johns

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought…

— Robert Adams

I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of…

— Georg Baselitz

I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I…

— Josef Albers