Lucian Freud <3

"You ask why I'm fascinated by the human figure? As a human animal, I am interested in some of my fellow animals: in their minds and bodies."

Lucian Freud

Francis Bacon, Portrait of Lucian Freud, 1951

Lucian Freud, Portrait of Francis Bacon, 1952

“I’ve always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It’s people who have brought drama to pictures from the beginning. The simplest human gestures tell stories.”

Lucian Freud

“The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.”

Lucian Freud

“Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.”

 Lucian Freud

“I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.”

Lucian Freud

"The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that they make in space is as bound up with them as might be their colour or smell ... Therefore the painter must be as concerned with the air surrounding his subject as with the subject itself. It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out."

  Lucian Freud