Artist Quote by Robert Motherwell

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

— Edouard Manet

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

— Marcel Duchamp

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front…

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Naum Gabo

What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen…

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Georg Baselitz

I am not an artist. I am not a painter.

— Gulzar

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

— Lucian Freud

Artists who don't paint aren't artists.

— Billy Childish

I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.

— Lee Krasner

The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.

— Leonardo da Vinci

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of…

— Bridget Riley