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title: "2 Creation Necessary Quotes By Lucian Freud"
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> [The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucian-freud/the-process-of-creation-becomes-necessary-to-the-painter-perhaps-more/)

[Lucian Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucian-freud/)

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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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucian-freud/were-it-not-for-this-dissatisfaction-the-perfect-painting-might-be/)

[Lucian Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucian-freud/)

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## More by Lucian Freud

> [A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in the act…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucian-freud/a-moment-of-complete-happiness-never-occurs-in-the-creation-of-a-work/)

[Lucian Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucian-freud/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucian-freud/i-don-t-want-any-colour-to-be-noticeable-i-don-t-want-it-to-operate/)

[Lucian Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucian-freud/)

> [The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucian-freud/the-character-of-the-artist-doesn-t-enter-into-the-nature-of-the-art/)

[Lucian Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucian-freud/)

> [Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucian-freud/since-the-model-he-so-faithfully-copies-is-not-going-to-be-hung-up/)

[Lucian Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucian-freud/)

> [I have a timetable, but no routine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucian-freud/i-have-a-timetable-but-no-routine/)

[Lucian Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucian-freud/it-is-the-only-point-of-getting-up-every-morning-to-paint-to-make/)

[Lucian Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucian-freud/)

> [Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucian-freud/full-saturated-colours-have-an-emotional-significance-i-want-to-avoid/)

[Lucian Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucian-freud/)

> [Sometimes, when I've been staring too hard, I've noticed that I could see the circumference of my own eye.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucian-freud/sometimes-when-i-ve-been-staring-too-hard-i-ve-noticed-that-i-could/)

[Lucian Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucian-freud/)

> [The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucian-freud/the-task-of-the-artist-is-to-make-the-human-being-uncomfortable/)

[Lucian Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucian-freud/i-remember-francis-bacon-would-say-that-he-felt-he-was-giving-art/)

[Lucian Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucian-freud/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucian-freud/i-think-half-the-point-of-painting-a-picture-is-that-you-don-t-know/)

[Lucian Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucian-freud/i-work-from-the-people-that-interest-me-and-that-i-care-about-in/)

[Lucian Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucian-freud/)

> [There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucian-freud/there-is-a-distinction-between-fact-and-truth-truth-has-an-element-of/)

[Lucian Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucian-freud/)

> [The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucian-freud/the-painter-s-obsession-with-his-subject-is-all-that-he-needs-to/)

[Lucian Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucian-freud/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucian-freud/i-have-a-hatred-of-habit-and-routine-and-what-dogs-love-is-just-that/)

[Lucian Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucian-freud/)

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