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Painter Quotes by Lucian Freud
- The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
- The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that they make in…
- The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.
- The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement
- The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming
- The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture…
- A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in the act of…
- 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…
- If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.
- A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for…
- A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.
- 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…
- 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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