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.

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• Lucian Freud:

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

• Lucian Freud:

  The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject

• Lucian Freud:

  The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with.

• Lucian Freud:

  There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If some

• 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 w

• Lucian Freud:

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

• Lucian Freud:

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

• Ernest Lehman:

  After all, the wool of a black sheep is just as warm.

• Ernest Lehman:

  There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him.

• Delmore Schwartz:

  Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.