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Lucian Freud
1922 – 2011 • British • Artist
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Collected Meditations
Showing 27 quotesWhether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.— Lucian Freud
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
The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.— Lucian Freud