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Lucian Freud Quotes

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: british
Birth: December 8, 1922 - July 20, 2011

Topics

Work Drive Him Obsession Painter He

I'm a big eater. I mean, a lot of my stand-up is about food, and you write about what you know, and that's the only thing I know. I don't know anything else.

Food You Know Mean Write Anything

I don't come from a lot of money. In fact, I don't come from any money.

Jerry Della Femina

Money Come Fact Lot Any In Fact

I'm the kind of person that just goes in and does my job.

Andie MacDowell

Job Person Kind Just Goes Does

I think, when I'm on the court, I become with a killer instinct - a real Scorpio.

Think Become Real Instinct Court

I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time's a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love.

Family Love Home Time Parents Baby

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Work Service Government Someone Take

I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.

Time Police Me Believe Will Come

Every career thing I do can't be perfect and sometimes my decisions are wrong.

Decisions Perfect Career Wrong Every

I believe that the death penalty is an effective penalty.

Death Believe Death Penalty I Believe

I have interviewed Hugo Chavez, Tim McVeigh, and hundreds of fascinating characters in South America, where I have lived for the past 15 years.

Jonathan Franklin

Past America Years Lived Where Hugo

The truth doesn't change. It was the same when Moses got the Ten Commandments as it is today. That's the thing about the truth. That's the thing about real. It doesn't change and it doesn't have to change. Now you can put it in a different book, but it's still real. It's still the truth.

Change Today Truth Book You Now

One common desire that every human being has is to love and be loved. At the end of our lives, it's how we measure our lives.

Love End Loved Measure Desire Human

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