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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
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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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Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
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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 longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
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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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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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The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art
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Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.
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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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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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The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter
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The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.
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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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My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.
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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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Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It is this great insufficiency that drives him on. The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than it is in the picture. The process is in fact habit-forming.
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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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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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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 only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.
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