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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.
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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The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.
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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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The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.
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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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My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.
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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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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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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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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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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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Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.
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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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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.
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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 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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Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
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The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art
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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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The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement
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