“No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums of Paris . Beginning with the market - where, for lack of money, I bought only a piece of a long cucumber - the workman in his blue overall, the most ardent followers of Cubism , everything showed a definite feeling for proportion, clarity, an accurate sense of form, of a more painterly kind of painting, even in the canvases of second-rate artists.” KindLongFeelingsFormArtistGivenPiecesPaintingWindowBlueRateTeethClarityParisProportionShopsMuseumsFollowersAccurateDefiniteAcademyArdentExhibitionsWorkmenSecond RateCucumbersCubismShop Windows Author:Marc Chagall
“And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.” ArtistNextInterestModelsCopiesAccurateHung Book:Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre Source: Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre