Composing Quote by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“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

The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and space, pattern…

— Andreas Feininger

The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his…

— William Morris Hunt

From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than the painter…

— Joshua Reynolds

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without…

— Diego Rivera

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

— Paul Cezanne

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 doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down…

— David Milne

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

— Miguel de Cervantes

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

— Max Ernst

When we look at a painting, listen to a piece of music, read a novel, or watch a movie we are taking in the…

— Mike Svob