"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."

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"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."

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"The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all."

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"Joy is sacred blessing."

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"See beauty everywhere, and let your heart dance with it."

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"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

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"Here's to the past. Thank God it's past!"

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"She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte."

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"Rainbows paint the sky with different colors of love, sadness, and joy."

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Explore more quotes by 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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"As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does."

Work

"My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings."

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"Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."

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"The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art."

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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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