Conflict Quote by Richard Schmid

Paint what you see, not what you know.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

I paint what I think, not what I see.

— Pablo Picasso

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

— Edouard Manet

When you paint things exactly as they are, you don't show people anything that they couldn't see for themselves; you're telling them what they…

— Paul Strisik

You don't paint what you see, you paint what you feel.

— Romare Bearden

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

— Philip Guston

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

— Ali Banisadr

All I can say is that when I paint, I am looking at things that are in the world.

— Elizabeth Neel

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.

— Wayne Thiebaud

My job is to paint what I see, not what I know.

— J. M. W. Turner

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

— Raoul Dufy

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

— Pablo Picasso