
„Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.“
— Pablo Picasso Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer 1881 - 1973
On painter Rufino Tamayo.
I Used to Believe I Had Forever — Now I'm Not So Sure (1968)
Contexto: He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see for sure what we saw long ago but weren't sure we saw. He paints for the dead, to remind us that — great good God, think of it — we're alive, and on our way to weather, from the sea to the hot interior, to watermelon there, a bird at night chasing a child past flowering cactus, a building on fire, barking dogs, and guitar-players not playing at eight o'clock, every picture saying, "Did you live, man? Were you alive back there for a little while? Good for you, good for you, and wasn't it hot, though? Wasn't it great when it was hot, though?"
— Pablo Picasso Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer 1881 - 1973
— Bram van Velde Dutch painter 1895 - 1981
short quotes, 31 October 1966; p. 58
1960's
— Camille Pissarro French painter 1830 - 1903
Quote of Pissarro, in a letter, Paris, 6 December 1886, to his son Lucien; in Camille Pissarro - Letters to His Son Lucien ed. John Rewald, with assistance of Lucien Pissarro; from the unpublished French letters; transl. Lionel Abel; Pantheon Books Inc. New York, second edition, 1943, p. 84
1880's
— Michael Moorcock, livro The City in the Autumn Stars
Fonte: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 6 (p. 269)
— Mark Tobey American abstract expressionist painter 1890 - 1976
Fonte: 1950's, In: Reminiscence and Reverie, 1951, p. 231
— Berthe Morisot painter from France 1841 - 1895
quote from Berthe Morisot to her sister Edma Morisot, after visiting the Salon of Paris in 1869; as cited in The Correspondence of Berthe Morisot, with her family and friends, Denish Rouart with Adler and Garb; Camden Press London 1984, pp. 33-34
1860 - 1870
— Thomas Fuller (writer) British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654 - 1734
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1736) : Why does the blind man's wife paint herself?
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Helena, Act I, scene i.
Variante: Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind".
Fonte: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)
— Claude Monet French impressionist painter 1840 - 1926
Quote, Jan. 1921, to journalist Marcel Pays. Monet in the 20th Century, by Paul Hayes Tucker.
1920 - 1926
— Pablo Picasso Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer 1881 - 1973
— Caspar David Friedrich Swedish painter 1774 - 1840
Quote from "The Awe-Struck Witness" in TIME magazine (28 October 1974) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,908926-1,00.html and in "On the Brink: The Artist and the Seas" by Eldon N. Van Liere in Poetics of the Elements in the Human Condition: The Sea (1985) ed. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Variant translations:
The artist should not only paint what he sees before him, but also what he sees within him. If, however, he sees nothing within him, then he should also omit to paint that which he sees before him.
As quoted in German Romantic Painting (1994) by William Vaughan, p. 68
undated
Contexto: 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. Otherwise his pictures will be like those folding screens behind which one expects to find only the sick or the dead.
— Randall Jarrell poet, critic, novelist, essayist 1914 - 1965
“Malraux and the Statues at Bamberg”, p. 194
A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables (1962)
— Paul Valéry French poet, essayist, and philosopher 1871 - 1945
Mauvaises Pensées et Autres (1941)
— Agnes Martin American artist 1912 - 2004
interview with Joan Simon, 1995 in Perfection is in the Mind, p. 86; as quoted in A House Divided: American Art Since 1955, Anne M. G. Wagner, Univ. of California Press, 2012, p. 263
1980 - 2000
— Maureen Johnson, livro 13 Little Blue Envelopes
Fonte: 13 Little Blue Envelopes
— Francesco Berni Italian poet 1497 - 1535
LII, 1
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato
— Gerhard Richter German visual artist, born 1932 1932
after 2000
— Faith Ringgold American artist 1930
On the Civil Rights Movement puncturing the image of the American Dream in https://www.theartnewspaper.com/interview/faith-ringgold-discusses-civil-rights-and-children-s-books-ahead-of-solo-serpentine-gallery-show in The Art Newspaper (2019 Jun 5)
— Bram van Velde Dutch painter 1895 - 1981
About his contact with Beckett in Paris, before and during World War 2.
1970's
Fonte: article "Schilder Bram van Velde in Dordrecht," in: NRC Handelsblad by Paul Groot, 1979 (English translation: Charlotte Burgmans)
— John Ruskin English writer and art critic 1819 - 1900