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Lucian Freud quotes about painting

British Artist December 8, 1922 – July 20, 2011

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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. Lucian Freud
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. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong. Lucian Freud
Lucian Freud quote: "As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to..."
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 quote: "I want paint to work as flesh."
I want paint to work as flesh. Lucian Freud
Lucian Freud quote: "When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a..."
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 quote: "I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly..."
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
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 quote: "The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or..."
The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter. Lucian Freud

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