“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)

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British painter and engraver 1922–2011

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