Ifs Quote by Lucian Freud

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities…

— Lucian Freud

Once you set out to copy another painter you can never be more than number two.

— Sergei Bongart

An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There…

— Pablo Picasso

Painting requires skill. Photography is created by the camera, and one cannot fully control what the camera sees. So people take many photographs because…

— Igor Babailov

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities…

— Lucian Freud

I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model...

— Paul Gauguin

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

— Edouard Manet

Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our…

— Willem de Kooning

So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation.

— William Dobell

The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Painting demands an intelligent model.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

— Pablo Picasso