Filled Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by…

— Leonardo da Vinci

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

— Lucian Freud

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

— Paul Cezanne

Your painting is a measure of your mind.

— Millard Sheets

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The chief consideration for a good painter is to think out the whole of his picture, to have it in his head as a…

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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

— Eugene Delacroix

Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to…

— Philip Guston

The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes,…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can…

— Al Jourgensen

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