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Lucian Freud Quotes


The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.

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.

When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't.

Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.