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.
Lucian FreudWhen 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.
Lucian FreudWhen 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 FreudLosing as much money as I can get hold of is an instant solution to my economic problems.
Lucian Freud