I have a hatred of habit and routine. And what dogs love is just that. They like regular everything, and I don't have regular anything. I have a timetable, but no routine.
Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid. - Lucian Freud
Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
- Lucian Freud
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. There is a distinction between fact and trut… - Lucian Freud
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. There is a distinction between fact and trut…
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
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
The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter - Lucian Freud
The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter
What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince. - Lucian Freud
What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.
Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait. - Lucian Freud
Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. - Lucian Freud
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
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 mig… - Lucian Freud
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 mig…
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 fascinati… - Lucian Freud
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 fascinati…
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