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Lucian Freud
Lucian Freud
British Artist
Born: Dec 8, 1922
Died: Jul 20, 2011
Art He His Me Picture Work
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I never think about my style but just try and make the pictures look believable. Lucian Freud
Try Style Think About Never Pictures Look Make Just Believable
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. Lucian Freud
You Animal Animals Minds Some Fellow Am Human Human Animal Interested Ask Bodies Figure Fascinated Why
The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. Lucian Freud
Out Object Given Part Aura Person Them Much Flesh
The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter. Lucian Freud
Me Matter Side Excite Subject Subject Matter Irrespective Them Really Paintings Element
A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure. Lucian Freud
Own Think Everything Pleasure Must Entirely Sees He His Being Use Being There Painter
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
Picture Own Hung No Interest He Since Faithfully Up Model Accurate Going Whether Interest Next Copies Copy
My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings. Lucian Freud
Work Myself Purely About Surroundings Autobiographical
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. Lucian Freud
People Exactly Spite Like Because How Happen Paint
The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement. Lucian Freud
Only Point Excitement Private His Providing Very Model Should Painter Function Serve Starting Starting Point
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. Lucian Freud
Worth Picture Preserving Took About Could He Taken Feels Qualities Were His Model Person Which Really Painted Painter Twice Thinks
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
Truth Strike Distinction About Something More Fact True Merely Between Does Revelation Than Being Element
Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen. Lucian Freud
Will Seen Entirely Itself Depends Whether Convince

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