Nature Quote by Paul Cezanne

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.

— J. E. H. MacDonald

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

— Paul Cezanne

Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than…

— Claude Monet

There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in the light)…

— Jean-Luc Godard

“Paint, for the Impressionists, became a medium whose material properties were being celebrated as opposed to being disguised behind the artifice of a pictorial…

— Will Gompertz

It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And you see…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

— Roy Lichtenstein

Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.

— Caryl Churchill

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory,…

— Philip Guston

You don't paint what you see, you paint what you feel.

— Romare Bearden

I believe that one should not think too much about nature when painting, at least not during the painting's conception. The colour sketch should…

— Paula Modersohn-Becker

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

— Edward Hopper