Lucian Freud

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

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These are some quotes by British author Lucian Freud Artist, who lived between December 8, 1922 and July 20, 2011.

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

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

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

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