Artist Quote by Marcel Duchamp

The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.

— e. e. cummings

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

— Edouard Manet

The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.

— Paul Cezanne

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

— Jackson Pollock

You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.

— Denis Diderot

No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.

— Glen Duncan

If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist.

— Naum Gabo

We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.

— James Whistler

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

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

— Robert Motherwell

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

— Georg Baselitz

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