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> [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.](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/)

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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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