The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art. — Lucian Freud

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. — Thomas Jefferson
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. — Voltaire
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work. — Lucian Freud
A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art. — Lucian Freud
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. — Lucian Freud