Lucian Freud Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I never think about my style but just try and make the pictures look believable.”

“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.”

“You ask why I'm fascinated by the human figure? As a human animal, I am interested in some of my fellow animals: in their minds and bodies.”

“Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.”

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