Abstract Quote by Lucian Freud

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

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

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art

— Lucian Freud

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

I have a timetable, but no routine.

— Lucian Freud

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

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

— Lucian Freud

Sometimes, when I've been staring too hard, I've noticed that I could see the circumference of my own eye.

— Lucian Freud

The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.

— Lucian Freud

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

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

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