Lucian Freud
I work from the people that interest me, and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and know. I use the people to invent my pictures, and I can work more freely when they are there.Collection: People
Losing as much money as I can get hold of is an instant solution to my economic problems.Collection: Gambling
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. 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.Collection: Giving
I have a hatred of habit and routine. And what dogs love is just that. They like regular everything, and I don't have regular anything. I have a timetable, but no routine.Collection: Dog
I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within painting, rather than paintings.Collection: Ideas
When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won'tCollection: Artist
The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-formingCollection: Facts
If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.Collection: Taken
I have a timetable, but no routine.Collection: Routine
The painting is always done very much with [the model's] co-operation. The problem with painting a nude, of course, is that it deepens the transaction. You can scrap a painting of someone's face and it imperils the sitter's self-esteem less than scrapping a painting of the whole naked body.Collection: Self Esteem
The paintings live because their creator has been passionately attentive to their theme, and his attention has left something for us to look at. It seems a sort of miracle.Collection: Miracle