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Lucian Freud Quotes about Painting

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What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.

What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.

Lucian Freud
Painting, Seducing, Convince
National Gallery (Great Britain), Lucian Freud (1987). “The artist's eye: Lucian Freud : an exhibition of National Gallery Paintings selected by the artist 17 June - 16 August 1987”

I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.

Lucian Freud
Thinking, Half, Painting
Interview with Martin Gayford, Independent on Sunday, May 26, 2002.

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