"The task of the artist is to make……" — Lucian Freud

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

— Lucian Freud

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49 Quotes by Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud has 49 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.
I want paint to work as flesh... my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a…
I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a…
I don't want any colour to be noticeable... I don't want it to operate in the modernist sense as colour,…
The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The…
I have a hatred of habit and routine. And what dogs love is just that. They like regular everything, and…
I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to…
I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but…
When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit…
I have a timetable, but no routine.
The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to…

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A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
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