Quotes by Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

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.

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Promise

Spring

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

Being There

Thinking

Use

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.

Art

Obsession

Taste

And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.

Artist

Interest

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does

Artist

Doe

Flesh

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

Portraits

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

Emotional

Significance

Want

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 because I hoped that if I concentrated enough the intensity of scrutiny alone would force life into the pictures. I ignored the fact that art, after all, derives from art. Now I realize that this is the case.

Art

Facts

Rooms

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.

Art

Use

Would Be

I could never put anything into a picture that wasn’t actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of artfulness.

Lying

Mere

Would Be

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Quotes by Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

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.

And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

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.

I could never put anything into a picture that wasn’t actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of artfulness.

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