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

- Lucian Freud

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

- Lucian Freud

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

- 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…

- Lucian Freud