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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.
Lucian Freud
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Lucian Freud
Age: 88 †
Born: 1922
Born: December 8
Died: 2011
Died: July 20
Drawer
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Berlin
Germany
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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 task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.
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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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Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
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Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.
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The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art
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I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It's people who have brought drama to pictures from the beginning. The simplest human gestures tell stories.
Lucian Freud
The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.
Lucian Freud
A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.
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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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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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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.
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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 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
Losing as much money as I can get hold of is an instant solution to my economic problems.
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The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement
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
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
As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does
Lucian Freud
Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.
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