"Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself."

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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.

— Lucian Freud