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Work Quotes by Lucian Freud
- The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
- 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…
- As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does
- The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster.
- 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…
- I work from the people that interest me, and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and know. I use the people…
- My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.
- I want paint to work as flesh.
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach