I want paint to work as flesh... my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them ... As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.
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
- 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…
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.
Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid. - Lucian Freud
Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
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
Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait. - Lucian Freud
Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.
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…
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.
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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