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The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
Lucian Freud
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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
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More quotes by Lucian Freud
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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My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.
Lucian Freud
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
I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.
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The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
Lucian Freud
Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
Lucian Freud
A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.
Lucian Freud
I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of artfulness.
Lucian Freud
Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.
Lucian Freud
The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art
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The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.
Lucian Freud
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.
Lucian Freud
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.
Lucian Freud
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.
Lucian Freud
The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.
Lucian Freud
Losing as much money as I can get hold of is an instant solution to my economic problems.
Lucian Freud
I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art my admirations for other art had very little room to show themselves in my work because I hoped that if I concentrated enough the intensity of scrutiny alone would force life into the pictures. I ignored the fact that art, after all, derives from art. Now I realize that this is the case.
Lucian Freud
The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.
Lucian Freud
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
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
