Artist Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself…

— 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

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally…

— Lucian Freud

The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Lucian Freud

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 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

It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.

— Bridget Riley

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

— Andre Malraux

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

— Paul Cezanne

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

— Edgar Degas