May Quote by Lucian Freud

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front…

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Saša Stanišić

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

— Lucian Freud

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

— Pablo Picasso

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

— Paul Cezanne

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

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

Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of…

— George Rodrigue

The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never…

— John Edgar Park

If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

— Edgar Degas