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Lucian Freud - From the Abstraction category:
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes and, ironically, the more real. (Lucian Freud)
Lucian Freud - From the Artists category:
The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art. Eliot said that art is the escape from personality. We know that Velazquez embezzled money from the Spanish court and wanted power and so on, but you can't see this in his art. (Lucian Freud)
Lucian Freud - From the Colour category:
Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid. (Lucian Freud)
Lucian Freud - From the Concentration category:
The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster. (Lucian Freud)
Lucian Freud - From the Desire category:
Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much. (Lucian Freud)
Lucian Freud - From the Difficulty category:
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. (Lucian Freud)
Lucian Freud - From the Dissatisfaction category:
A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of
art. The promise of it is felt in the act of creation but disappears towards the completion of the work. For it is then the painter realises that it is only a picture he is painting. Until then he had almost dared
to hope the picture might spring to life. (Lucian Freud)
Lucian Freud - From the Dissatisfaction category:
Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It is this great insufficiency that drives him on. The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than it is in the picture. The process is in fact habit-forming. (Lucian Freud)
Lucian Freud - From the Emotion category:
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)
Lucian Freud - From the Eroticism category:
The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter. (Lucian Freud)
Lucian Freud - From the Ideas category:
I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help – to look at situations within painting, rather than paintings. (Lucian Freud)
Lucian Freud - From the Improvisation category:
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)
Lucian Freud - From the Materials category:
As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does. (Lucian Freud)
Lucian Freud - From the Models category:
I work from the people that interest me, and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and know. I use the people to invent my pictures, and I can work more freely when they are there. (Lucian Freud)
Lucian Freud - From the Models category:
If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice. (Lucian Freud)
Lucian Freud - From the Models category:
Since the model... is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy... The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement. (Lucian Freud)
Lucian Freud - From the Nudes category:
The problem with painting a nude... is that it deepens the transaction. You can scrap a painting of someone's face and it imperils the sitter's self-esteem less than scrapping a painting of the whole naked body. (Lucian Freud)
Lucian Freud - From the Nudes category:
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. (Lucian Freud)
Lucian Freud - From the Observation category:
It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out. (Lucian Freud)
Lucian Freud - From the Obsession category:
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work. (Lucian Freud)
Lucian Freud - From the Painting category:
A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure. (Lucian Freud)
Lucian Freud - From the Portraiture category:
I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them. (Lucian Freud)
Lucian Freud - From the Portraiture category:
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. (Lucian Freud)
Lucian Freud - From the Portraiture category:
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)
Lucian Freud - From the Purpose category:
The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable. (Lucian Freud)
Lucian Freud - From the Questions category:
What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince. (Lucian Freud)
Lucian Freud - From the Senses category:
The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that they make in space is as bound up with them as might be their colour or smell... Therefore the painter must be as concerned with the air surrounding his subject as with the subject itself. (Lucian Freud)
Lucian Freud - From the Subject category:
Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen. (Lucian Freud)
Lucian Freud - From the Taste category:
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. (Lucian Freud)
Lucian Freud - From the Truth category:
There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so. (Lucian Freud)
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