Lucian Freud Quotes

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  • A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in the act of creation but disappears towards the completion of the work. For it is then the painter realises that it is only a picture he is painting. Until then he had almost dared to hope the picture might spring to life.

    Art   Spring   Promise  
  • 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, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers
  • 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.

    Ducks   Skins   Recipes  
  • If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.

    Taken   Quality   Painter  
    Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers
  • The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.

    Artist   Flesh   Auras  
    Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers
  • 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.

    People   Portraits   Doe  
  • I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

    People   Paint   Spite  
  • Sometimes, when I've been staring too hard, I've noticed that I could see the circumference of my own eye.

    Eye   Sometimes   Staring  
    "ART REVIEW; Raw Realism That Dares You Not to Flinch" by Michael Kimmelman, www.nytimes.com. March 21, 2003.
  • I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to show themselves in my work because I hoped that if I concentrated enough the intensity of scrutiny alone would force life into the pictures. I ignored the fact that art, after all, derives from art. Now I realize that this is the case.

    Art   Rooms   Facts  
    Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers
  • The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster.

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

    Motivational   Art   Real  
  • I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It's people who have brought drama to pictures from the beginning. The simplest human gestures tell stories.

    Drama   People   Creative  
  • The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

  • It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.

  • As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does

    Artist   Doe   Flesh  
    Lucian Freud, Richard Calvocoressi, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (1997). “Lucian Freud: early works : Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art”
  • The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming

    Facts   Creation   Habit  
    Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers
  • The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement

    Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers
  • I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within painting, rather than paintings.

    Ideas   Doctors   Use  
  • I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.

    Art   Would Be   Use  
    "Lucian Freud Paintings". Book by Robert Hughes, 1982.
  • The painting is always done very much with [the model's] co-operation. The problem with painting a nude, of course, is that it deepens the transaction. You can scrap a painting of someone's face and it imperils the sitter's self-esteem less than scrapping a painting of the whole naked body.

    Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers
  • 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

    Artist   Giving   Choices  
    Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers
  • The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter

    Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers
  • The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art

    Art   Character   Artist  
  • I have a timetable, but no routine.

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

    National Gallery (Great Britain), Lucian Freud (1987). “The artist's eye: Lucian Freud : an exhibition of National Gallery Paintings selected by the artist 17 June - 16 August 1987”
  • A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

    Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers
  • The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.

    Secret   Taught   Claims  
  • I work from the people that interest me, and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and know. I use the people to invent my pictures, and I can work more freely when they are there.

    People   Care   Rooms  
    Lucian Freud, Hayward Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain (1974). “Lucian Freud: catalogue of an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, 25 January-3 March 1974 ... and at 3 other galleries, 6 April-23 June 1974”
  • 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 fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.

    Art   Giving   Trying  
  • Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

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