Copying Quote by Paul Gauguin

Once you set out to copy another painter you can never be more than number two.

— Sergei Bongart

The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.

— Paul Cezanne

Sunlight is painting.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it…

— Rabindranath Tagore

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 process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming

— Lucian Freud

You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Sometimes, you have to take your eyes off that sun and look at the picture as a whole, from a distance and see how…

— Pooja Agnihotri

You know, a landscape painter's day is delightful. You get up early, at three o'clock in the morning, before sunrise; you go and sit…

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot