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

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• Lucian Freud:

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

• Lucian Freud:

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

• Lucian Freud:

  Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and

• Lucian Freud:

  Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of

• Lucian Freud:

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

• Lucian Freud:

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

• 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 poi

• Lucian Freud:

  The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject no

• Lucian Freud:

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