Lucian Freud Quotes

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.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

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.

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.

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