Doe Quote by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.

— Denis Diderot

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but…

— Leonardo da Vinci

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

— Pablo Picasso

I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to…

— Jean Dubuffet

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art

— Lucian Freud

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

— Miguel de Cervantes

A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may have noted…

— Auguste Rodin

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

— Paul Cezanne

The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which…

— Paul Cezanne

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

“The painter is not simply someone who looks and who sees. Above all, the artist is someone who exposes a personal vision by rendering…

— Marcel Paquet