Art Quote by Pablo Picasso

I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which…

— George Frederic Watts

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

— Edouard Manet

I paint what I think, not what I see.

— Pablo Picasso

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

— Max Beckmann

You don’t make art out of good intentions.

— Gustave Flaubert

I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of…

— Andrew Wyeth

I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel,…

— Claude Monet

Without intent all painting is meaningless.

— Christopher Willard

You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.

— Alex Katz

When you paint things exactly as they are, you don't show people anything that they couldn't see for themselves; you're telling them what they…

— Paul Strisik

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I paint as a way of looking for myself in the world.

— Amy Sherald