Ducks Quote by Peter Cook

Every good painter paints what he is.

— Jackson Pollock

I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

— Steven Saylor

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can…

— Edward de Bono

Like a guide dog, paintings help you see.

— Martin Mull

“Painters have often taught writers how to see.”

— James Baldwin

The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot succeed. His…

— Walter J. Phillips

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

— Caspar David Friedrich

“SOME PAINTINGS become famous because, being durable, they are viewed by successive generations, in each of which are likely to be found a few…

— Aldo Leopold

“It’s not visual. He’s not. You know him by his work, for one thing, and that part is visual, I suppose, isn’t it? The…

— Vicki Covington

The good painter is the one who buries a color every day.

— Roger Bissiere

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

— Miguel de Cervantes

What painting is, is exactly what people see.

— Robert Ryman