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.


Lucian Freud: Paintings (1987), p. 20 - Lucian Freud : Paintings (1987)

Lucian Freud Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...