As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.
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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.Lucian Freud
The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.
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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.
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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.
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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
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