Lucian Freud
Lucian Freud
Lucian Michael Freud OM CH was a British painter. Known chiefly for his thickly impastoed portrait and figure paintings, he was widely considered the pre-eminent British artist of his time. His works are noted for their psychological penetration and their often discomforting examination of the relationship between artist and model...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth8 December 1922
CityBerlin, Germany
Lucian Freud quotes about
dog love-is hatred
I have a hatred of habit and routine. And what dogs love is just that. They like regular everything, and I don't have regular anything. I have a timetable, but no routine.
flesh want doe
As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does
secret taught claims
The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.
needs obsession painter
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
artist purpose tasks
The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.
ideas doctors looks
I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within painting, rather than paintings.
artist surroundings
My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.
erotic matter sides
The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter
giving choices looks
When I look at a body it gives me choice 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.
giving feelings may
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.
losing problem economic
Losing as much money as I can get hold of is an instant solution to my economic problems.
art taste obsession
A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.
excitement should function
The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement
eye sometimes staring
Sometimes, when I've been staring too hard, I've noticed that I could see the circumference of my own eye.