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I want paint to work as flesh...

I want paint to work as flesh... my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them ... As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

The paintings that really exc...

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

A painter's tastes must grow o...

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.

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

A painter must think of everyt...

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

My work is purely autobiograph...

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

The aura given out by a person...

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

I remember Francis Bacon would...

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 72 quotes

The longer you look at an obje...

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

Full, saturated colours have a...

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

I've always wanted to create d...

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 72 quotes

I always felt that my work had...

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.

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

I think half the point of pain...

I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen ... that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

And, since the model he faithf...

And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

The painter's obsession with h...

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

The only way I could work prop...

The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster.

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

A moment of complete happiness...

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.

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

Were it not for this [dissatis...

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.

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

I use the gallery as if it wer...

I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within painting, rather than paintings.

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

I work from the people that in...

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 72 quotes

If all the qualities which a p...

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 72 quotes

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