I don't want any colour to be ...

I don\'t want any colour to be noticeable... I don\'t want it to operate in the modernist sense as colour, something independent... Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
I don't want any colour to be noticeable... I don't want it to operate in the modernist sense as colour, something independent... Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
 Lucian Freud

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Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.
I think there was the studio mentality for a long time that women and girls can relate to a male hero, but boys and men can't relate to a female hero.
 Jennifer Lawrence
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
 Harriet Tubman
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
 William Ellery Channing
You must do the things you think you cannot do.

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The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster.
 Lucian Freud
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
 Lucian Freud
And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.
 Lucian Freud
Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
 Lucian Freud