Being true Quote by Horace Pippin

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.

— Anonymous

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

— Marcel Duchamp

It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but…

— Leonardo da Vinci

The artist alone among men knows what true humility means. His reach forever exceeds his grasp. He can never be satisfied with his work.…

— Rheta Childe Dorr

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

— Epictetus

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

— Laurence J. Peter

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

— Jackson Pollock

No man knows what he can do until he tries.

— Anonymous

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has…

— Pablo Picasso

Man can learn everything if he will but try.

— Anonymous

No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe