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Famous Lucian Freud Quotes
Source: Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre
“My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.”
“The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.”
Source: Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre
“The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.”
Source: Lucian Freud
Source: Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre
“The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.”
Source: Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre
Source: Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre
Source: Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre
“As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does”
Source: Lucian Freud: early works : Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
“The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art”
