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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
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Berlin
Germany
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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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The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.
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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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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.
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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 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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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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Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
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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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The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
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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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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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Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.
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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 task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.
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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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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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Losing as much money as I can get hold of is an instant solution to my economic problems.
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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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