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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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
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.
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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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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.
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Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
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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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