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Paint Quotes by Lucian Freud
- I want paint to work as flesh... my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being…
- I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.
- It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to…
- As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does
- I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It's people who have brought drama to pictures from the…
- I want paint to work as flesh.
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