"The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art."

Nature, Art, Character

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"The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art."

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"All art is but imitation of nature."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Nature, Art, Imitation

"Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Nature, Effort, Living, Nothing

"Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Nature, Space

"What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?"

Sorin Cerin, Romanian Philosopher

Nature, Growth, Observation, Beauty

"Can I tell from the twilight from which the world is built that I am a sunrise in this life?"

Sorin Cerin, Romanian Philosopher

Nature, Twilight, Observation, Wonder, Reflection

"The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up. It was as if night has burst a blood-vessel in the sky over there."

Stephen King, American Author

Nature, Today, Power, Wisdom

"To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex."

Stephen King, American Author

Nature, Life, Truth, Death, Wisdom

"We ran as if to meet the moon."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Nature, Freedom, Poetry, Joy

"Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon..."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Nature, Night, Dawn, Darkness

"There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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Explore more quotes by Lucian Freud

"Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much."

Now

"The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice."

Worth

"I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them."

People

"Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."

Interest

"I want paint to work as flesh."

Work

"My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings."

Work

"The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work."

Work

"When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't."

Body

"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."

Life

"Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen."

Will