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 someon… - Lucian Freud

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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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About Lucian Freud

Lucian Michael Freud, OM, CH (8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and printmaker. He was born in Berlin, Germany and is the grandson of psychotherapist Sigmund Freud and brother of politician and writer Clement Freud.

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Birth Name: Lucian Michael Freud
Alternative Names: Lucien Freud • Lusyan Froid
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When I look at a body I know it gives me choices 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.
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