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Lucian Inspirational Quotes (90)

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Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.
Luciano Pavarotti
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In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.
Luciano Pavarotti
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The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.
Lucian Freud
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Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage.
Luciano Pavarotti
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There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.
Luciano Pavarotti
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I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.
Lucian Freud
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Nothing that has happened has made me feel gloomy or remain depressed. I love my life.
Luciano Pavarotti
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My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.
Lucian Freud
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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 the painter realises that it is only a picture he is painting. Until then he had almost dared to hope the picture might spring to life.
Lucian Freud
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Death is a mercy, and I have enough mercy to go around.
Lucian
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It is not lawful or proper for you to know everything.
Lucian
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I think Beijing deserves the Olympics in order to be with all the rest of the world recognized.
Luciano Pavarotti
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The important thing is that you've got to have ideas in the first place. And you need to have the passion to implement them.
Luciano Benetton
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Dancing is as old as love.
Lucian
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The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid
Lucian
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On the day I'm performing, I don't hear anything anyone says to me.
Luciano Pavarotti
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The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art. Eliot said that art is the escape from personality, which I think is right. We know that Velázquez embezzled money from the Spanish court and wanted power and so on, but you can't see this in his art.
Lucian Freud
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I remember quite well that 10,000 audience sang with us three on the spot, and ever since then, I always thought the Chinese audience are the greatest audience.
Luciano Pavarotti
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The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.
Lucian Freud
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The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.
Luciano Pavarotti
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The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter
Lucian Freud
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Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
Luciano Pavarotti
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The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
Lucian Freud
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I work from the people that interest me, and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and know. I use the people to invent my pictures, and I can work more freely when they are there.
Lucian Freud
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