Pablo Picasso Quote

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

Paul Klee

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

Sophocles

• Man

Dwelling upon the self too much produces terrible fatigue. A man in that position is deaf and blind to everything else. The fatigue itself makes him cease to see the marvels all around.

Carlos Castaneda

• Inspirational
• Self-discovery

You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.

Camille Claudel

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

Salvador Dali

• Dreams

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

Alberto Giacometti

One eye sees, the other feels.

Paul Klee

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Pablo Picasso

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Albert Einstein

• Heart
• Famous

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Thomas Jefferson

• War

There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

Abraham Lincoln

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

Thomas Hardy

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Honore de Balzac

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

Steven Soderbergh

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Michelangelo

• Mind

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

Samuel Beckett

• Destiny

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

Paul Cezanne

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

Georges Seurat

• Poetry

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Oscar Wilde