Digging Quote by Henri Matisse

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer…

— Sam Francis

There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing.

— Marcel Duchamp

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

— Pablo Picasso

And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain…

— Albert Camus

An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

— Francis Bacon

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

— Willem de Kooning

The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.'…

— Allan Kaprow

“The art, the art of living, involves the act of creation. The work of art is nothing. It is only the tangible, visible evidence…

— Henry Miller

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable…

— Lucian Freud

When an artist becomes complacent, he dies.

— Nate Parker

The painting has a life of its own

— Jackson Pollock

The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.

— Dorothy L. Sayers