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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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
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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The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
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The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.
Lucian Freud
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
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