Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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.

Lucian Freud's Popular Quotes

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

- 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…

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What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.

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The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter

- Lucian Freud

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

- Lucian Freud

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

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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…

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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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