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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.
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
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More quotes by Lucian Freud
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.
Lucian Freud
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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A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.
Lucian Freud
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.
Lucian Freud
The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter
Lucian Freud
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.
Lucian Freud
Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
Lucian Freud
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
Lucian Freud
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
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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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.
Lucian Freud
Losing as much money as I can get hold of is an instant solution to my economic problems.
Lucian Freud
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
Lucian Freud
Sometimes, when I've been staring too hard, I've noticed that I could see the circumference of my own eye.
Lucian Freud
The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.
Lucian Freud
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 task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.
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
My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.
Lucian Freud
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
