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  • 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
  • The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.
    - Lucian Freud
  • As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.
    - Lucian Freud
  • I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.
    - Lucian Freud
  • 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