"I want paint to work as flesh." — Lucian Freud
"I want paint to work as flesh."
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Lucian Freud
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49 Quotes by Lucian Freud
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The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
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The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.
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I want paint to work as flesh... my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a…
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I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a…
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I don't want any colour to be noticeable... I don't want it to operate in the modernist sense as colour,…
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The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The…
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I have a hatred of habit and routine. And what dogs love is just that. They like regular everything, and…
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I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to…
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I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but…
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When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit…
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I have a timetable, but no routine.
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The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to…
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Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself…
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Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail…
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But…
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God himself took this human flesh upon him.
— William Barclay
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Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.
— Geoffrey Beene
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Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual,…
— Annie Besant
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want…
— Samuel Butler
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In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the…
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We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we…
— Benjamin Carson
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The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems.…
— Benjamin Carson
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Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
— Emile M. Cioran
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