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The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.

~Lucian Freud

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The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

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The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.

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The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.

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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.

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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.

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Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Artist

Born: December 8th, 1922

Died: July 20th, 2011

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