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.Lucian Freud
Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.
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Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.
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My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.
Lucian Freud
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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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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