Lucian Freud
Artist
1922-12-08
Books by Lucian Freud
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Quotes by Lucian Freud
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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.
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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.
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The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.
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The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.
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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.
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My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.
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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.
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