Eye Quote by Paul Cezanne

It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.

— Bridget Riley

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

It is essential that the painter should develop not only his eyes, but also his soul, so that it too may be capable of…

— Wassily Kandinsky

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

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

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

— 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

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

— Max Ernst

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.

— Marion Milner

The paintings have a lot to do with the idea of seeing and doing, and the relationship between your hand and your eye, and…

— Malcolm Morley