Art Quote by Lucian Freud

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that they make…

— Lucian Freud

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

— Pablo Picasso

If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an uplifted feeling within us. There is an interplay…

— Lawren Harris

It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.

— Thomas S. Buechner

It is imperative that the artist reveal through the medium in which he is happiest, what he sees, thinks and feels about his surroundings.

— Franklin Carmichael

It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in…

— Pablo Picasso

The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.

— Odilon Redon

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

— Lucian Freud

Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's…

— Francis Bacon

To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.

— Andre Malraux

It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at…

— John Updike

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

— Saša Stanišić