What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince. — 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 painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work. — 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
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
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
The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he… — 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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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 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
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 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
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
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
It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to… — 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
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
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
A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure. — 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
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
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
![“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.” quote by Lucian Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d15/lucian-freud-12071_body_the-painting-is-always-done-very-much-wi_2407554.jpg)
![“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 more than it is in the picture. The process is in…” quote by Lucian Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4d2/lucian-freud-12071_completion_were-it-not-for-this-dissatisfaction-the_1882674.jpg)
![“It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.” quote by Lucian Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4a9/lucian-freud-12071_art_it-is-through-observation-and-perception_2665593.jpg)
