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

— Pablo Picasso

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✓Similar Perspectives

I paint with shapes.

— Alexander Calder

The things that I paint are things that I know very well.

— Jamie Wyeth

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.

— Jasper Johns

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

— Philip Guston

Oh, I paint all the time.

— Billy Dee Williams

I write what I see; I paint what I am.

— Etel Adnan

I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

— Annie Parisse

✗Opposing Perspectives

I paint things as they are. I don't comment.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

— Henri Matisse

I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.

— John Dyer