British - Artist | December 8, 1922 - July 20, 2011
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
Lucian Freud
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I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.
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I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.
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A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.
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And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.
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As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.
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I want paint to work as flesh.
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Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.
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Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.
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The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.
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The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.
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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.
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