"I work from the people that interest me,……" — 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 people to invent my pictures, and I can work more freely when they are there."
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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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