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