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“When I was offered the part in Shakespeare In Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights role!”

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Joseph Fiennes is a British actor born on May 27, 1970. He is known for his performances in films and television, gaining attention early in his career for his role as Shakespeare in 'Shakespeare in Love'. Fiennes has starred in numerous films, including 'A Beautiful Mind', the 'Harry Potter' series, and 'The Reader'. more

“A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in the act of creation but disappears towards the completion of the work. For it is then the painter realises that it is only a picture he is painting. Until then he had almost dared to hope the picture might spring to life.”

Art Moments Might Felt Creation Painting Promise Spring Disappear Painter Works Of Art Realising Dissatisfaction Completion Complete Happiness

Author:Lucian Freud

“Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It is this great insufficiency that drives him on. The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than it is in the picture. The process is in fact habit-forming.”

Facts Might Process Perfect Creation Painting Habit Painter Retiring Dissatisfaction Completion Insufficiency

Author:Lucian Freud

“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.”

Ifs Looks Ideas Helping Use Situation Painting Doctors Gallery

Author:Lucian Freud

“I work from the people that interest me, and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and know. I use the people to invent my pictures, and I can work more freely when they are there.”

People Knows I Can Use Care Interest Rooms Models I Care

Book:Lucian Freud: catalogue of an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, 25 January-3 March 1974 ... and at 3 other galleries, 6 April-23 June 1974

Source: Lucian Freud: catalogue of an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, 25 January-3 March 1974 ... and at 3 other galleries, 6 April-23 June 1974

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