Lucian Freud: Quotes about painting

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

Lucian Freud: 14 quotes3 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: Paintings (1987), p. 20
Lucian Freud : Paintings (1987)

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

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

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

Interview with Martin Gayford, Independent on Sunday 26 May 2002
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