Doe Quote by Robert Henri

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

— Robert Henri

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

— Leonardo da Vinci

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Every good painter paints what he is.

— Jackson Pollock

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.

— Caspar David Friedrich

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

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

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Although a man be not a painter, he may have just opinions of the forms of men.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.

— Marc Chagall

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

— Charles Dudley Warner

A great painter can paint something really complex, but they can crystallize it into something really simple.

— Jenova Chen