More from Lucian Freud

  1. 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 …
  2. I paint people not because of what they are like... but how they happen to be.
  3. When I look at a body I know it gives me choices of what to put in a painting; what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction bet…
  4. I paint what I see, not what you hope that I see.
  5. My colour has no symbolic function whatever. I don't want any colour to be noticeable. I want the colour to be the colour of life, so that …
  6. I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to show themselves in my work beca…

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