Lucian Freud

A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in…

— 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...…

— Lucian Freud

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art

— Lucian Freud

Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no…

— Lucian Freud

I have a timetable, but no routine.

— Lucian Freud

It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than…

— Lucian Freud

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

— Lucian Freud

Sometimes, when I've been staring too hard, I've noticed that I could see the circumference of my own eye.

— Lucian Freud

The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.

— 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…

— 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…

— Lucian Freud

I work from the people that interest me, and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and know. I…

— Lucian Freud

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does…

— Lucian Freud

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

— 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…

— Lucian Freud

The paintings live because their creator has been passionately attentive to their theme, and his attention has left something for us to…

— Lucian Freud

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art. Eliot said that art is the escape from personality,…

— Lucian Freud

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

— Lucian Freud

You ask why I'm fascinated by the human figure? As a human animal, I am interested in some of my fellow animals:…

— Lucian Freud

The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who…

— Lucian Freud

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all…

— Lucian Freud

If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted…

— Lucian Freud

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting…

— Lucian Freud

What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.

— Lucian Freud

And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is…

— Lucian Freud