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Fact Quotes by Lucian Freud
- When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't. There…
- The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming
- 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…
- There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike…
- The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which…
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