Lucian Freud > Quotes

“The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.”
― Lucian Freud

“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.”
― Lucian Freud

“When I'm painting people in clothes I'm always thinking very much of naked people, or animals dressed.”
― Lucian Freud

“It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.”
― Lucian Freud

“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.”
― Lucian Freud

“An artist should appear in his work no more than God in nature. The man is nothing; the work is everything.”
― Lucian Freud