“I was a loser, most concerned with making a living. It took me 30 years to understand... I had to reinvent a system, find a way out, and set some rules that could work for me and a few others. I guess in the end that's what we all are trying to do.” WayTryingYearsEndsFailureConcernedLoserMaking A Living Author:Maurizio Cattelan
“There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.” KnowsPaintColourTubes Author:Arnold Friberg
“It was a startling task to undertake, for the Book of Mormon had never been illustrated before, at least on any professional level. There were no precedents.” BookLevelsTasksDifficultyPrecedent Author:Arnold Friberg
“The muscularity in my paintings is only an expression of the spirit within. When I paint Nephi, I'm painting the interior, the greatness, the largeness of spirit. Who knows what he looked like? I'm painting a man who looks like he could actually do what Nephi did.” KnowsMenLooksSpiritGreatnessPaintingExpressionPaintInteriors Author:Arnold Friberg
“I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create the kind of 'art' which the confused critics praise for its 'plastic significance,' 'fluid lines,' and 'inner awareness,' or 'must be understood on three levels.” PeopleWantKindArtThreeLinesLevelsAwarenessPaintingAmbitionUnderstoodPraiseCriticsBurningConfusedSignificancePlasticFluidModernismPainting A Picture Author:Arnold Friberg
“I have plenty of enemies... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while painting something 'significant.” ThinkingShouldArtistMoneyEnemyPaintingSignificantPlentyEarningResentEarning A Living Author:Arnold Friberg
“What I do I am driven to do. I follow the dictates of a looming and unseen force. I try to become like a musical instrument, intruding no sound of its own but bringing forth such tones as are played upon it by a master's hand.” TryingHandsForceSoundPaintingMastersInstrumentsMusicalDrivenToneUnseenMusical InstrumentsLoomingUnseen Forces Author:Arnold Friberg
“There are two very different types of artists: those I call Old Masters, who work by trial and error and tend to improve with age, and conceptual people, or Young Geniuses, who generally do their best work early in their careers.” PeopleTwoDifferentAgeYoungArtistCareersMastersTypeGeniusErrorsTrialsBest WorkTrial And Error Author:David Galenson
“The people who do better and better work are people who are never satisfied. Cezanne would say, 'I think I've accomplished something,' but then he would immediately add, 'But it's not enough.” PeopleThinkingEnoughAddSatisfiedAccomplishedDissatisfactionCezanne Author:David Galenson