Art Quote by Lucian Freud

The secret of art is love.

— Antoine Bourdelle

The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.

— Pablo Picasso

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

— Thornton Wilder

“—if a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don’t think, ‘oh, I…

— Donna Tartt

Slowly I discovered the secret of my art. It consists of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream which is always…

— Henri Matisse

The secret of life is in art.

— Oscar Wilde

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

Secrets can actually be quite important. A work of art that reveals its meaning or its power too quickly is uninteresting. It might not…

— Thomas Koerfer

Art like life is an open secret.

— Lawrence Durrell

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

— Oscar Wilde

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

— Alfred North Whitehead

It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.

— Lucian Freud