A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work. — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
The paintings live because their creator has been passionately attentive to their theme, and his attention has left something for us to… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince. — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them. — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
I want paint to work as flesh... my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
The painting is always done very much with [the model's] co-operation. The problem with painting a nude, of course, is that it… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in the act… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
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… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid. — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when I've been staring too hard, I've noticed that I could see the circumference of my own eye. — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
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… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
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… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
I work from the people that interest me, and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and know. I use the… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
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