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Lucian Freud Art Quotes - 1922 - Lives in London |
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Quotes by Lucian Freud. Figurative British artist.
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+ The longer you look at an object, the more abstract
it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
+ 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.
+ 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.
+ I have a hatred of habit and routine. And what
dogs love is just that. They like regular everything,
and I don't have regular anything. I have a timetable,
but no routine.
+ My work is purely autobiographical.. It is about
myself and my surroundings. I work from people that
interest me and that I care about, in rooms that
I know.
+ 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.
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