Lucian Freud Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I want paint to work as flesh.”

“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.”

“And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”