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Lucian Freud

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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.


— Lucian Freud


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Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.


— Lucian Freud


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The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.


— Lucian Freud


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The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.


— Lucian Freud


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The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.


— Lucian Freud


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A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.


— Lucian Freud


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Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.


— Lucian Freud


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


— Lucian Freud


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As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.


— Lucian Freud


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My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.


— Lucian Freud


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Jacquetta Lampson):
The Hon. A series of huge nude portraits from the mid-1990s depicted the very large Sue Tilley or "Big Sue" some using her job title of "Benefits Supervisor" in the title of the painting as in his 1995 portrait Benefits Supervisor Sleeping which in May 2008 was sold by Christie's in New York for $33. The exhibition comprised around 30 drawings and paintings done between 1940 and 1945.

Lucian Michael Freud OM CH (8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a German-born British painter. His works are noted for their psychological penetration and for their often discomforting examination of the relationship between artist and model.

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