Character Quote by Claude Monet

You just have to be adventurous and that's the way I like to work. I think that's the role of the artist, to do…

— Neige

In painting, the key is not taking myself seriously to the point where it kills sincerity.

— Scott Avett

Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.

— Kazimir Malevich

In art there is a need for truth, not sincerity.

— Kazimir Malevich

Painting can also be too earnest at times and that's a drag. You don't want to go in that direction either. It should be…

— Joe Bradley

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.

— Oswald Chambers

A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one…

— William Dobell

The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic…

— Walter J. Phillips

Not every painter has a gift for painting, in fact, many painters are disappointed when they meet with difficulties in art. Painting done under…

— Titian

“The artist striving for truth or sincerity had to guard his spontaneous vision against distortion or alteration by aesthetic conventions or preconceptions.”

— Linda Nochlin

An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty

— Andrei Tarkovsky