Arms Quote by Tamora Pierce

The artist isn't particularly keen on getting a thing done, as you call it. He gets his pleasure out of doing it, playing with…

— William McFee

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Anonymous

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does “what he does for one reason and one reason…

— Alma Gluck

“If you're putting that energy into performance," he said, "you're also getting it back out again, right? You're giving so you can receive." He…

— Jennifer Echols

“What can an artist use but materials, such as they are? What can he light but the short string of his gut, and when…

— Annie Dillard

The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat the feat…

— John F. Carlson

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

Perhaps the male has become an artist in the creation of many hidden ways of killing himself.

— Herb Goldberg

The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

— Emil Nolde

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

— Lucian Freud

“A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?” The…

— Robert Henri