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The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
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The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.
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I want paint to work as flesh... my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of…
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I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie,…
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I don't want any colour to be noticeable... I don't want it to operate in the modernist sense as colour, something independent...…
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The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that…
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I have a hatred of habit and routine. And what dogs love is just that. They like regular everything, and I don't…
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I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior…
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I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they…
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When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and…
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I have a timetable, but no routine.
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The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he…
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Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for…
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A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly…
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Feeling very happy - why? An explanation is needed. No, happiness needs no explanation, happiness is its own explanation. God is creating…
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A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.
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Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch…
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The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who…
— Lucian Freud
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Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic…
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Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part…
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A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and…
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