Offers Quote by Winslow Homer

Paint what you see, not what you know.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint.

— John Marin

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

— Edouard Manet

I paint what I think, not what I see.

— Pablo Picasso

You have to give in to what the paint says... You have to do what it's telling you to do.

— Milton Resnick

Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise.

— Richard Schmid

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

You need to paint with enough assurance and confidence to know you can do whatever you like.

— Sara Genn

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

— J. M. W. Turner

You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.

— Matt Smith

I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

— Edvard Munch