top of page
.png){kind=small}
"A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Being quotes
"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
Explore more quotes by Lucian Freud
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does."
"The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement."
"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."
bottom of page