Lucian Freud
Lucian Michael Freud was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, who is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Berlin
- Educated at
- Goldsmiths, University of LondonBryanston School
- Awards
- 🏆 Companion of Honour🏆 Rubenspreis
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"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."
"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…"
"I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to show themselves in my work because I hoped that if I concentrated enough the intensity of sc…"
"My colour has no symbolic function whatever. I don't want any colour to be noticeable. I want the colour to be the colour of life, so that you would notice it as being irregular if it changed. I don't…"
"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…"
Works & Publications
No works or publications documented yet.
Timeline
1922
Born
Birth2011
Died
Death
Influenced By
Thinkers whose ideas shaped Lucian's philosophy
No known influences documented.
Influenced
Thinkers whose work was shaped by Lucian's ideas
No influenced thinkers documented yet.
Source Attribution
Information about Lucian Freud is sourced from curated knowledge bases and cross-referenced for accuracy. Influence relationships are scored by thematic overlap and historical plausibility.
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"Though we may in quiet times confront the fact that we are going to die, much of our daily life is lived in…"
— Gareth Morgan"The greatness of an artist depends on selecting and interpreting whatever phase in Nature may appeal to his…"
— Andrew Maclaren"We lost a place, but my daughter was born at the same time. We were taking care of her in Los Angeles, beca…"
— Wesley Snipes"What trace of the creature subsists in the work. It is a way of staying alone, passing the time subjected t…"
— Patrick Swift"I spent a long time, my dear Suzanne, looking for your photograph - I eventually found the album in the tab…"
— Édouard Manet"Dear Richard, I was just coming home from an interior . It was terribly dark today and yesterday, but today…"
— Suze Robertson
