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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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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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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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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 only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.
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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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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 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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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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The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement
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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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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 that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter
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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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The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
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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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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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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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Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
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The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.
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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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