The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. Lucian Freud abstractironicallylong Change image and share on social
Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin. Lucian Freud duckelaborateend Change image and share on social
The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn. Lucian Freud completelydrawfelt Change image and share on social
I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them. Lucian Freud peopleportraitsitter Change image and share on social
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work. Lucian Freud driveobsessionpainter Change image and share on social
A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art. Lucian Freud artgrowlife Change image and share on social
The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement. Lucian Freud excitementfunctionmodel Change image and share on social
The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice. Lucian Freud feltinvestmodel share on social
As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does. Lucian Freud concernfleshpaint Change image and share on social
Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much. Lucian Freud hold Change image and share on social
