About 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

If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.

— Lucian Freud

When an artist paints a picture he does not want you to consider his personality as represented in that picture - he wants you…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The chief consideration for a good painter is to think out the whole of his picture, to have it in his head as a…

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In the fulfillment…

— Edward Weston

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what he is…

— Edgar Degas

Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.

— Emil Nolde

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more…

— John French Sloan

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.

— Caspar David Friedrich

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

— Saša Stanišić

The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot succeed. His…

— Walter J. Phillips

A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.

— Edgar Degas