Artist Quote by William Blake

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

— Claude Monet

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Marcel Duchamp

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

The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist.

— Eric Maisel

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

— Harold Rosenberg

A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist…

— Walter J. Phillips

As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He…

— Auguste Rodin

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

— Naum Gabo

Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.

— Tom Stoppard

Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person.

— Joseph C Zinker

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

— Pablo Picasso