Frederick Carl Frieseke

“My one idea is to reproduce sunlight.”

“The longer I work, the more I believe that technique is a minor detail.”

“It is a great mistake to think that a painter is a man who can draw and paint anything.”

“I know nothing of 'schools.' I am just trying to paint, and that is hard enough.”

“My one idea is to reproduce queer, beautiful effects of light.”

“If you are bored... it is your own fault.”

“I'm after atmosphere, and I don't see it in a studio.”

“If you are going to be a painter, you must be a painter.”

“There are two things in a painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.”

“I doubt if many of the men who have become painters have been much influenced by their teachers.”

“It is the sun that is the great painter.”

“I am working for light and the clean color of things out of doors, and it is a fascinating problem.”

“I am working for light, for sunlight. I am only interested in putting down the effects of light, and I am not a landscapist.”