Ability Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

That painter who has no doubts will achieve little.

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Marcel Duchamp

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

— Irving Stone

A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it.

— Georg Baselitz

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

— Andre Malraux

It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“A painter must never be satisfied with what he sees—painting reality means surrendering to it,”

— Saša Stanišić

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally…

— Lucian Freud

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

— D. H. Lawrence

A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.

— Josef Albers

The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never…

— John Edgar Park

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

— Anton Chekhov