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Painting Quotes by Lucian Freud
- 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…
- I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art.…
- 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…
- 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
- Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one…
- What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.
- The painting is always done very much with [the model's] co-operation. The problem with painting a nude, of course, is that it deepens the transaction.…
- The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter
- 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…
- I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within painting, rather than…
- It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.
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- If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. — Honore de Balzac
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