List of Lucian Freud Quotes

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Lucian Freud
Total Quotes 48
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.
Self Esteem Body Faces
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.
Miracle Looks Attention
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.
Art Would Be Use
If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.
Taken Quality Painter
I have a timetable, but no routine.
Routine Timetables
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
Artist Giving Choices
A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.
Thinking Use Being There
The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. the process in fact is habit-forming
Facts Creation Habit
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.
Giving Choices Doe
The only secret i can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.
Secret Taught Claims
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.
Ideas Doctors Use
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.
Dog Love Is Hatred
  • Born: December 8, 1922
  • Died: July 20, 2011
  • Occupation: Painter
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