Phrase by 'Lucian Freud'

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I never think about my style but just try and make the pictures look believable.

Author: Lucian Freud - British Artist
  Look , Think , Style , Pictures


The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

Author: Lucian Freud - British Artist
  You , More , Look , Real


A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

Author: Lucian Freud - British Artist
  Being , Everything , Own , Think


My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

Author: Lucian Freud - British Artist
  Myself , Work , About , Surroundings


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

Author: Lucian Freud - British Artist
  Want , Emotional , Avoid , Full


I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.

Author: Lucian Freud - British Artist
  Me , Remember , Art , Thought


You ask why I'm fascinated by the human figure? As a human animal, I am interested in some of my fellow animals: in their minds and bodies.

Author: Lucian Freud - British Artist
  Animal , You , I Am , Animals


And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.

Author: Lucian Freud - British Artist
  Next , Own , Picture , Copy


As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.

Author: Lucian Freud - British Artist
  Me , Work , I Am , Person


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.

Author: Lucian Freud - British Artist
  Me , I Am , Art , Painting


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