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Lucian Freud Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Me Painting Body Look Choice Will

I was voted the most beautiful girl in the world in 1958, and courted by every young, available man in Los Angeles, most of whom I didn't go out with, by the way.

Girl Beautiful Man World Go Young

I learned my lesson early in my career that it's not helpful to go and look at what other people's opinions are.

People Opinions Look Early Career

Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before I see first chapters, too. I usually begin with endings, with a sense of aftermath, of dust settling, of epilogue.

Mind Important First Dust See Begin

The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.

Me Why More Always Than Much

So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.

World You Look Profit Know Want

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

John Robert Seeley

Mind World Seem Half Absence Fit

Oh God, you know I have no money, but you can make the people do for me, and you must make the people do for me.

Sojourner Truth

God Money People Me You Know

Nothing's wrong with honest emotion.

Wrong Nothing Emotion Honest

A lot of people don't do this. You can count on a couple of hands probably how many artists also produce and write, both for themselves and for others, and are able to be successful at both things.

People Hands You Others Write Count

If someone accuses me of not being born here, I can go -within 10 minutes - to my filing cabinet and I can pick up my real birth certificate and I can go, 'See? Look! Here it is. Here it is.'

Me Someone Look I Can Born Go

There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Animals Say Development Dogs Meat

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Life Purpose People Winners Definite

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