The longer you look at an ...

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
 Lucian Freud

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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
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
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