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Lucian Freud

British

December 8, 1922

Artist

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

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I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

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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.

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Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

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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.

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