Surroundings Quote by Lucian Freud Download Open image “My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.” — Lucian Freud ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Surroundings
The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
All my works over the years have been autobiographical in the sense they reflect some part of my life, although I have fictionalised them… — Ruskin Bond 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
All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The stuff I write isn't strictly autobiographical, but it's personal, if that makes any sense. It draws all these little incidents and people out… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work. — Andrea Arnold Copy Share Image
My work has never been autobiographical. Although the subjects are driven on a personal perspective it's sort of elevated above me. I try to… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
The stories that I want to tell are completely, well, somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems. — Nicole Holofcener 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
If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively in small… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
Why do we love certain homes, and why do they seem to love us? It is the warmth of our individual hearts reflected in… — T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings Copy Share Image
Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you. — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is being aware of yourself, others, and your surroundings in the moment. When consciously and kindly focusing awareness on life as it unfolds… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
Three blind mice walk into a pub. But they are unaware of their surroundings, so to derive humour from it would be exploitative. — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
As the young spend less of their lives in natural surroundings, their senses narrow, physiologically and psychologically and this reduces the richness of human… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
