Action Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

“Look at walls splashed with a number of stains, or stones of various mixed colours. If you have to invent some scene, you can…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“At street corners, where walls join, I thought I could see some familiar features, like outlines of human faces, the shadows of cheekbones and…

— Ismail Kadaré

You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and rhythm is…

— John Paul Caponigro

I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp. You will…

— Ciaran Carson

“What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists…

— John Lubbock

My paintings always feature trails that dissolve into mysterious areas, patches of light that lead the eye around corners, pathways, open gates, etc.

— Thomas Kinkade

If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you…

— Richard Schmid

I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.

— Julian Schnabel

All I can say is that when I paint, I am looking at things that are in the world.

— Elizabeth Neel

The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent.…

— Squeak Carnwath

When painting a landscape it is desirable to walk through the clumps and around the bushes, around the trees, the houses and the rocks.…

— John French Sloan