Quotes by Lucian Freud

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure. (Lucian Freud)

A painters 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. (Lucian Freud)

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. (Lucian Freud)

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does. (Lucian Freud)

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid. (Lucian Freud)

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. (Lucian Freud)

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. (Lucian Freud)

I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, its what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do. (Lucian Freud)

I want paint to work as flesh. (Lucian Freud)

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them. (Lucian Freud)