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Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

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Lucian Freud
Age: 88 †
Born: 1922
Born: December 8
Died: 2011
Died: July 20
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Painter
Printmaker
Berlin
Germany
Lucian Michael Freud
Lucien Freud
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The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.
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My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.
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Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.
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The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
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Sometimes, when I've been staring too hard, I've noticed that I could see the circumference of my own eye.
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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.
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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.
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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. There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.
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I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.
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Losing as much money as I can get hold of is an instant solution to my economic problems.
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The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
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The painting is always done very much with [the model's] co-operation. The problem with painting a nude, of course, is that it deepens the transaction. You can scrap a painting of someone's face and it imperils the sitter's self-esteem less than scrapping a painting of the whole naked body.
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As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does
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The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.
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If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.
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The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art
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I don't want any colour to be noticeable... I don't want it to operate in the modernist sense as colour, something independent... Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
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The paintings live because their creator has been passionately attentive to their theme, and his attention has left something for us to look at. It seems a sort of miracle.
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The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.
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The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.
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