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 confuse…

- 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 largene…

- 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

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

- 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 pre…

- 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 it…

- Arnold Friberg