Lucian Freud // "A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in the act of creation, but disappears towards the completion of the work. For it is then that the painter realizes that it is only a picture he is painting. Until then, he had almost dared to hope that the picture might spring to life...It is this great insufficiency that drives him on. Thus the process of creation becomes necessary to the painter, perhaps more than...the picture."