The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.
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The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.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.
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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.
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The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.
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It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.
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My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.
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