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It is through observation and ...

It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

The task of the artist is to m...

The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

Everything is autobiographical...

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

Sometimes, when I've been star...

Sometimes, when I've been staring too hard, I've noticed that I could see the circumference of my own eye.

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

The only secret I can claim to...

The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

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

I could never put anything int...

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 72 quotes

I don't want any colour to be ...

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.

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. The effect that they make in space is as bound up with them as might be their colour or smell ... Therefore the painter must be as concerned with the air surrounding his subject as with the subject itself. It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

I have a hatred of habit and r...

I have a hatred of habit and routine. And what dogs love is just that. They like regular everything, and I don't have regular anything. I have a timetable, but no routine.

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

I am only interested in painti...

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.

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

I paint people, not because of...

I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

When I look at a body it gives...

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 72 quotes

I have a timetable, but no rou...

I have a timetable, but no routine.

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

The painter must give a comple...

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.

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

It is the only point of gettin...

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.

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

The model should only serve th...

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

When I look at a body it gives...

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

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

I would wish my portraits to b...

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.

Lucian Freud 72 quotes

Painting is sometimes like tho...

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 72 quotes

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