Lucian Freud Quotes

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.

Lucian Freud

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PaintingEndDuckYouSkinSide

You happily give Facebook terabytes of structured data about yourself, content with the implicit tradeoff that Facebook is going to give you a social service that makes your life better.

John Battelle

LifeServiceYourselfBetterData

Loving a country is an act of the imagination.

Michael Ignatieff

ImaginationLovingCountryAct

Just by nature, I think in comedy. I think in sketches and what have you. In every drama or action movie I've been in, I have to make a concerted effort not to turn it into a comedy. Every shot, before action is called and after cut is called, I'm usually in some goofy head space. It feels natural to me.

Michael Jai White

NatureEffortSpaceMeActionThink

Work will take everything you give it. It's up to you to work out what you want to give it.

Amy Pascal

WorkYouWantWillEverythingOut

I made the connection between food and weight, but feeling good or bad was a separate issue.

Robin Quivers

GoodFoodFeeling GoodBadFeeling

He is great enough that is his own master.

Joseph Hall

GreatEnoughMasterOwnHeHis

I have seen so many poets who were famous, who won all sorts of prizes, disappear with their death. I write as good as I can and don't try to turn that into some hope for a future that I could never know.

Donald Hall

GoodFutureHopeDeathFamousI Can

The best advice I ever received is that there is a difference between urgency and importance: Urgent tasks seem important, but they're not. Important things need to get done.

Chieh Huang

BestAdviceDoneImportantUrgency

We teach people how to treat us.

Phil McGraw

PeopleTreatTeachUsHow

I don't wanna get into that space where a lot of guys now, their solo album is like eight or 10 songs with other people, you don't get an idea of who this guy is. I just wasn't interested in that.

Mos Def

SpacePeopleYouNowSoloGuy

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

Mark Tobey

PaintingActionBelieveMeditation

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.

Leslie Stephen

GodWordsPeopleMindThinkDoubt

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