Art Quote by Lucian Freud

Art is difficult.

— Scott Thompson

“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

“What is art, if not an excuse to be adventurous?”

— Nenia Campbell

“At the point in his lecture where he was saying that the representative element in a work of art is always irrelevant, that for…

— Joy Williams

“The compelling thing about making art—or making anything, I suppose—is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a…

— Audrey Niffenegger

Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.

— Mandy Patinkin

You can't really appreciate a work of art until you can understand how difficult it was to create. And that's probably true of any…

— Laurence Overmire

The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we…

— John Cassavetes

“Art is not alone in imparting charm and mystery to the most insignificant things; pain is endowed with the same power to bring them…

— Marcel Proust

“You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.”

— Anonymous

“I think serious art is supposed to make us confront things that are difficult in ourselves and in the world.”

— David Foster Wallace

I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon.

— David Crabb