Lucian Freud Quotes

British - Artist | December 8, 1922 - July 20, 2011

I never think about my style but just try and make the pictures look believable.

Lucian Freud

StyleThinkLookPicturesTryNever

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

Lucian Freud

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My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

Lucian Freud

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A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

Lucian Freud

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I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

Lucian Freud

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I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.

Lucian Freud

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The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.

Lucian Freud

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Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.

Lucian Freud

KnowNowWantHoldMuchQuite

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.

Lucian Freud

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The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.

Lucian Freud

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Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

Lucian Freud

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You ask why I'm fascinated by the human figure? As a human animal, I am interested in some of my fellow animals: in their minds and bodies.

Lucian Freud

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