Art Quote by Emil Nolde

The artist is a vessel for creativity. He has the key to the door of a very special place, which he can open at…

— Thomas J. Katz

The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.

— David Alfaro Siqueiros

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.

— Caspar David Friedrich

The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work…

— Anonymous

Painting demands an intelligent model.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

— Jackson Pollock

The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.

— Mervyn Levy

The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.

— Harold Rosenberg

It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.

— Lucian Freud

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

— Pablo Picasso

We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain…

— John Updike

“A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?” The…

— Robert Henri