I want paint to work as flesh.
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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
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
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My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.
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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.
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A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.
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