Lucian Freud: Paint

Lucian Freud was British painter and engraver. Explore interesting quotes on paint.

Lucian Freud: 14 quotes 3 likes

“When I look at a body I know it gives me choices of what to put in a painting; what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.”

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud: Paintings (1987), p. 20
Lucian Freud : Paintings (1987)

Truth , Painting

“I am only interested in painting the actual person; in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.”

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud: Paintings (1987), p. 20
Lucian Freud : Paintings (1987)

Art , Painting , Personality

“I paint people not because of what they are like… but how they happen to be.”

Lucian Freud

"A Queen of many colours," interview with Martin Gayford, Daily Telegraph, (2006-04-20), p. 3
Other

People , Painting

“I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen … that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.”

Lucian Freud

Interview with Martin Gayford, Independent on Sunday 26 May 2002
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Thinking , Painting