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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
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Lucian Freud
Age: 88 †
Born: 1922
Born: December 8
Died: 2011
Died: July 20
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Painter
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Berlin
Germany
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It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.
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Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.
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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 only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.
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The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.
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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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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.
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The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter
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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.
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My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.
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The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art
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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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A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.
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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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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.
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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 aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.
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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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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.
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