The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
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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.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.
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The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.
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I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within painting, rather than paintings.
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The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
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The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.
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