I don't want any colour to be noticeable... I don't want it to operate in the modernist sense as colour, something independent... Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid. Lucian Freud More Quotes by Lucian Freud More Quotes From 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. Lucian Freud doctors use ideas 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 use would-be art When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't Lucian Freud choices artist giving It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out. Lucian Freud artist feelings giving If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice. Lucian Freud painter quality taken 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. Lucian Freud spring promise art I have a timetable, but no routine. Lucian Freud timetables routine I never think about my style but just try and make the pictures look believable. Lucian Freud pictures look think style You ask why I'm fascinated by the human figure? As a human animal, I am interested in some of my fellow animals: in their minds and bodies. Lucian Freud animals i-am you animal Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much. Lucian Freud quite now know want Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model. Lucian Freud copy going picture next The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice. Lucian Freud worth picture person about
