Quotes from William Dobell

Honing a thing down until you can still get through with economy, that's power.

The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.

My best work is always done... when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery.

I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about my work. But not dangerously so.

A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.

I am always worried whether I am doing my best work.