Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Arnold Friberg

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American illustrator Arnold Friberg.

Last updated on December 3, 2024.

Arnold Friberg was an American illustrator and painter noted for his religious and patriotic works. He is perhaps best known for his 1975 painting The Prayer at Valley Forge, a depiction of George Washington praying at Valley Forge. He is also well known for his 15 "pre-visualization" paintings for the Cecil B. DeMille film The Ten Commandments which were used to promote the film worldwide and for which he received an Academy Award nomination.

American - Illustrator | December 21, 1913 - July 1, 2010

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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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Arnold Friberg

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Arnold Friberg

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