Arnold Friberg famous quotes

There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.
-- Arnold Friberg

#Paint #Colour

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.
-- Arnold Friberg

#Book #Tasks #Levels

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.
-- Arnold Friberg

#Greatness #Men #Expression

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.
-- Arnold Friberg

#Art #Confused #Ambition

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.
-- Arnold Friberg

#Money #Artist #Thinking

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.
-- Arnold Friberg

#Hands #Musical #Trying

All you leave the world is what you've done. No one will ever know the conditions, the comments, the pressures. Only the work remains.
-- Arnold Friberg

#Done #World #Pressure

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

I paint with my back to the world

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.

There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

Put variety in white.

The heart never knows the colour of the skin

When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black!

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.