Artist Quote by Salvador Dali

Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it.…

— Walter J. Phillips

A lot of young painters love to incorporate celebrity. One idea of being a painter is to use what's happening at the time. Velázquez…

— Ellsworth Kelly

Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about the connection…

— Ken Gillespie

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“you draw" (the painter)”

— Sarah Dunant

I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.

— Lee Krasner

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

When an artist begins to count strokes instead of regarding nature he is lost. This preoccupation with technique, at the expense of truth and…

— Joaquin Sorolla

The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Being able to draw well’, he goes on, ‘is the hardest thing – far harder than painting, as one can easily see from the…

— Martin Gayford