Lucian Freud

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

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.

Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.

I play purely from the heart, y'know, and so if it doesn't work the first couple of hours, forget it.

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.