Creation Quote by Lucian Freud

Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It is this…

— Lucian Freud

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.

— Joan Miro

A necessary process for the artist is one which begins with a point of view, a reaction to the environment, to people, to whatever…

— Jacques Lipchitz

The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art, be accompanied…

— Paul Klee

You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

It is necessary for the birthing process to begin to move in its own organic time. It is necessary that the artist have this…

— Rollo May

Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world.

— Jeffrey Smart

Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

— Adolph Gottlieb

The creative ability of an artist is manifested only if he succeeds in transforming the natural phenomena into 'another reality.' This part of the…

— Frantisek Kupka

In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind

— Gautama Buddha

The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of…

— Alfred Stieglitz