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

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

Sometimes, when I've been staring too hard, I've noticed that I could see the circumference of my own eye. — Lucian Freud

The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable. — Lucian Freud

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. — Lucian Freud

Losing as much money as I can get hold of is an instant solution to my economic problems. — Lucian Freud

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement. — Lucian Freud

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. — Lucian Freud

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

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work. — Lucian Freud

What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince. — Lucian Freud

The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming — Lucian Freud

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

It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out. — Lucian Freud

I have a timetable, but no routine. — Lucian Freud

Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much. — Lucian Freud

The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught. — 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. — Lucian Freud

I want paint to work as flesh. — Lucian Freud

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. — Lucian Freud

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art. — Lucian Freud

Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen. — Lucian Freud

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter. — Lucian Freud

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

The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster. — Lucian Freud

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. — Lucian Freud

I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of artfulness. — Lucian Freud

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

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

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them. — Lucian Freud

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. — Lucian Freud

Her face was fragile and mischievous, pale enough to absorb hues from the world around her-purple, green, pink-like a face painted by Lucian Freud. — Jennifer Egan