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.
More Quotes from 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
My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.
Lucian Freud
A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.
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
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
A painter's 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
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Art Quotes, Drawing & Painting QuotesBased on Keywords: ulterior
If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
Barbara Jordan
Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.
Lara St. John
Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night.
Etta James