Attention Quote by Wayne Thiebaud

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

— Lucian Freud

Every good painter paints what he is.

— Jackson Pollock

What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope the people…

— Creed Bratton

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

If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be…

— Robert Motherwell

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

Painting is a kind of call and response. During the act of painting one is listening, paying attention to a self, a voice simultaneously…

— Squeak Carnwath

The chief consideration for a good painter is to think out the whole of his picture, to have it in his head as a…

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

The good painter is the one who buries a color every day.

— Roger Bissiere

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can…

— Edward de Bono

A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.

— Augustus John