About Quote by Lucian Freud

“There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.”

Lucian Freud

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About Being Between Distinction Does Element Fact Merely More Revelation Something Strike Than True Truth

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

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