Lucian Freud Quotes

Film for me became how I related to everything else.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

I'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography.

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.

If I had to pick one song for me that sort of quintessentially summed me up, it would be 'Angel.' Without fail, I absolutely love singing it.

I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

I have to speak for myself. As far as videos go - casting, the artwork, everything - I'm completely hands-on. You have to be if you want your points across.

I love it when a photographer lets me create my own movement and feeling to the images. By that I mean he doesn't restrict me in his or her own ideas but rather gives me a direction and lets me work within those boundaries freely.

What I can't tell with a photo I will tell with a painting, and what I can't tell with a painting I will tell with a video or text sometimes, et cetera.

I came to feel an artist might use anything - a dot, a line, the most conventional or unconventional symbol - t say what he wanted to say.

Art is life's dream interpretation.

There are things I want to say: They are very important to me, and, not being a writer, I do it through movies.

Making movies is what I'm good at. Cinema is the means through which I can best express myself.

For me, collages manage to - it satisfies all of my madness, like I'm able to make these obsessive things, but then I'm also able to make these very strong statements. I don't know what they mean to other people, but in my mind, they have a very strong particular resonance; there's sort of a power.

Visual storytelling utilizes both language and art to pass on the essence of who we are.

I look at my body as an extension of the music. My body is a canvas, and with my tattoos, I want them to be a direct reflection of my thoughts.

Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.

In a portrait, you always leave part of yourself behind.

One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.

I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves.

Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it?

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.

Of course it's super special to create your own records; it really is a part of my self.