Lucian Freud Quotes on pain

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... view

By: Lucian Freud

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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... view

By: Lucian Freud

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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... view

By: Lucian Freud

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The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter... view

By: Lucian Freud

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

By: Lucian Freud

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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... view

By: Lucian Freud

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The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement... view

By: Lucian Freud

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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... view

By: Lucian Freud

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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... view

By: Lucian Freud

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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... view

By: Lucian Freud

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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... view

By: Lucian Freud

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I want paint to work as flesh... view

By: Lucian Freud

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A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure... view

By: Lucian Freud

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