Being there Quote by 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

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.

— Caspar David Friedrich

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

— Pablo Picasso

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 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 never be satisfied with what he sees—painting reality means surrendering to it,”

— Saša Stanišić

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable…

— Lucian Freud

The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.

— Max Ernst

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

— Leonardo da Vinci

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can…

— Edward de Bono

Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.

— Lucian Freud