Blind Quote by Pablo Picasso

“Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.”

— Pablo Picasso

A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.

— Peter Greenaway

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

— Sol LeWitt

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

— Caspar David Friedrich

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

— Edgar Degas

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

— Paul Klee

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.

— Gerhard Richter

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

— Saša Stanišić

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing…

— Caspar David Friedrich

Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.

— Benjamin Franklin

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

— Orhan Pamuk

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe