Home » Quote » Paul Valéry » „The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.“ „The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.“ — Paul Valéry Tags:Painting Related quotes „Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.“ — Pablo Picasso „The artist should not only paint what he sees before him, but also what he sees in himself. If, however, he sees nothing within him, then he should also refrain from painting what he sees before him.“ — Caspar David Friedrich „I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. After all, what is a painter? He is a collector who gets what he likes in others by painting them himself. This is how I begin and then it becomes something else.“ — Pablo Picasso „A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.“ — Gertrude Stein „In this big moonlit landscape by the painter N. N., that deservedly celebrated technician, one sees more than one would wish, or that can actually be seen by moonlight. But what the perceptive, sensitive soul looks for in every painting, and rightly expects to find, is missing.... If that painter could find it in himself to paint fewer, but more deeply-felt, pictures instead of so many clever ones, his contemporaries and posterity would be more grateful to him.“ — Caspar David Friedrich