“We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.” MadeSinCreationHabitBandCreaturesCustomsSteel Author:Charles W. Chesnutt
“Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It is this great insufficiency that drives him on. The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than it is in the picture. The process is in fact habit-forming.” FactsMightProcessPerfectCreationPaintingHabitPainterRetiringDissatisfactionCompletionInsufficiency Author:Lucian Freud