KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Lucian Freud Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Lucian Freud

Showing 1-10 of 27 Quotes by Lucian Freud

I never think about my style but just try and make the pictures look believable.

~Lucian Freud

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

~Lucian Freud

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.

~Lucian Freud

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.

~Lucian Freud

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


You ask why I'm fascinated by the human figure? As a human animal, I am interested in some of my fellow animals: in their minds and bodies.

~Lucian Freud

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

~Lucian Freud

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.

~Lucian Freud

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.

~Lucian Freud

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.

~Lucian Freud

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Artist

Born: December 8th, 1922

Died: July 20th, 2011

Links

Find Lucian Freud on Amazon

Related Authors

Nick Bantock
Cecily Brown
Paul Emsley
Gary Frank
Daphne Guinness
Howard Hodgkin
William Hogarth
Ian Mckeever
Ben Nicholson
Tony Ross

Popular Authors

W. E. B. Du Bois Joseph Campbell Lady Gaga Lyndon B. Johnson Michel De Montaigne Frank Ocean Joseph B. Wirthlin Frank Zappa

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1694 - Voltaire

1768 - Friedrich Schleiermacher

1787 - Bryan Procter

1863 - Arthur Quiller-Couch

1870 - Alexander Berkman

1886 - Harold Nicolson

1889 - Hugh Kingsmill

1898 - Rene Magritte

1904 - Coleman Hawkins

1907 - Jim Bishop

Birthdays on November 21st
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Birthday Diet Leadership Moving On Religion Strength Success Truth