Blindness Quote by Peter Greenaway

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has…

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Gerhard Richter

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

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Saša Stanišić

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

— Sol LeWitt

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

— Anonymous

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

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

— Paul Klee

“If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse painter because…

— Plato

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable…

— Lucian Freud

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide the attention,…

— Joshua Reynolds