Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is… — 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
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
There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than… — 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
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… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
