Paint Quote by Polly Allen Mellen

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer…

— Jasper Johns

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer…

— Jasper Johns

If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you…

— Richard Schmid

When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in…

— Ivan Eyre

Paint what you see, not what you know.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

The best designers in the world all squint when they look at something. They squint to see the forest from the trees - to…

— John Maeda

If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't…

— Mandy Patinkin

I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.

— John Dyer

When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.

— Winslow Homer

If you can see it, and if you know your color, you can paint it.

— Nelson Shanks

You don't see what you're seeing until you see it but when you do see it, it lets you see many other things.

— William Thurston

First you draw what you see. Next, you draw what you know, and only then will you know what it is that you see.

— Robert Beverly Hale