Painting Quote by Lucian Freud Download Open image “Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.” — Lucian Freud ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Painting Portraits
Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction. — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical. — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that… — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does not the… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Everything that I do is very autobiographical. I'm trying to be as much of an open book as possible and give the audience every… — Dua Lipa Copy Share Image
“Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in the act… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
I don't want any colour to be noticeable... I don't want it to operate in the modernist sense as colour, something independent... Full, saturated… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid. — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when I've been staring too hard, I've noticed that I could see the circumference of my own eye. — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
I work from the people that interest me, and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and know. I use the… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts. — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
I think I'm a guy who can get into the paint, make plays and obviously distribute and make plays for other guys, too. — Kevin Huerter Copy Share Image
“Love them all," said Renoir. "That is the secret, young man. Love them all." The painter let go of his arm and shrugged. "Then,… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. — William Blake Copy Share Image
“He unfixes the metal notch and slips his hand around the body of the bird. Feels its heat, its small heart beating. He stares… — Nina Schuyler Copy Share Image
I love painting. I love writing. I love creating and being around people who are creating. — Joe Lycett Copy Share Image
“Your soul is your paintbrush, your world is your canvass, your life is your masterpiece.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image