I remember francis bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. — Lucian Freud
A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure. — Lucian Freud
A painter’s tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what — Lucian Freud
And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture — Lucian Freud
As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does. — 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
Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck — Lucian Freud
Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture… — Lucian Freud
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. — Lucian Freud
The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement. — 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
The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. — Lucian Freud
The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter. — Lucian Freud
Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen. — Lucian Freud
There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. — 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