Art Quote by Lucian Freud

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

— Lucian Freud

If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather…

— Ben Shahn

“A painter must never be satisfied with what he sees—painting reality means surrendering to it,”

— Saša Stanišić

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

— Jackson Pollock

Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to…

— Philip Guston

The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which…

— Paul Cezanne

A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease…

— Wassily Kandinsky

If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be…

— Robert Motherwell

Part of being an artist is that you are achingly self-conscious about every aesthetic decision you make, and taste is at its most powerful…

— Grayson Perry

He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than…

— Albrecht Durer

“He doesn't believe in talking too much about art, especially while you're looking at it. The pressure to appreciate is the great enemy of…

— Robert Hellenga

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

— Lucian Freud