Artist 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

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

“He wondered if the German girl ever knew that someone had loved her so much that he painted her twice on the cold cement…

— Jess Walter

Why try to explain away a portrait of You painted by the insecurities of another? You didn't pick the brushes, the colors, nor the…

— Eugene Nathaniel Butler

I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was…

— Lucian Freud

A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in the act…

— Lucian Freud

I'd rather be remembered as a famous painter than a famous model, so I'll have to start the ball rolling now.

— Kirsty Hume

The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter…

— John Berger

It's different if you're a painter. You can hidethe ones that don't work. You can't do that with movies. They tellthe story of who…

— Stanley Tucci

Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer…

— Edouard Boubat

“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your flute, or…

— Shauna Niequist

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

— Leonardo da Vinci