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“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

“My colour has no symbolic function whatever. I don't want any colour to be noticeable. I want the colour to be the colour of life, so that you would notice it as being irregular if it changed. I don't want it to operate in the modernist sense as colour, something independent. I don't want people to say, "Oh, what was that red or that blue picture of yours, I've forgotten what it was."”

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud: Paintings (1987), p. 16
Lucian Freud : Paintings (1987)

Life , People , Sense , Change