Lucian Freud quote: "I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do."

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.
LUCIAN FREUD

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.
LUCIAN FREUD

I never think about my style but just try and make the pictures look believable.
LUCIAN FREUD

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.
LUCIAN FREUD

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

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject m...
LUCIAN FREUD

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject not...
LUCIAN FREUD

I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them t...
LUCIAN FREUD

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being...
LUCIAN FREUD

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
LUCIAN FREUD

When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what wo...
LUCIAN FREUD

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting poin...
LUCIAN FREUD

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.
LUCIAN FREUD

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. ...
LUCIAN FREUD

I want paint to work as flesh.
LUCIAN FREUD

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If somet...
LUCIAN FREUD

You ask why I'm fascinated by the human figure? As a human animal, I am interested in some of my...
LUCIAN FREUD

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
LUCIAN FREUD

Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of n...
LUCIAN FREUD

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himsel...
LUCIAN FREUD

The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and trut...
LUCIAN

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.
LUCIAN

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.
LUCIAN

Both companies are committed as never before to provide new entertainment services for the benefit o...
LUCIAN

I wasn't leaving, ... If you love animals like I love animals, you'd stick with it, too. We did what...
LUCIAN

How gracious are the gods in bestowing high positions; and how reluctant are they to insure them whe...
LUCIAN

The wealth of the soul is the only true wealth.
LUCIAN

From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
FREUD

Să nu te cerţi cu oamenii mai mult decât cu tine însuţi.
LUCIAN BLAGA

Hip-hop is very commercial and is very open to commercial messages.
LUCIAN JAMES

Real Dominance isn't always measured in muscle. Nor is it always measured in Intelligence. But rathe...
LUCIAN BANE

Such a deep silence surrounds me, that I think I hear moonbeams striking on the windows.
LUCIAN BLAGA

In the past, (product placements) were negotiated in a somewhat informal way. What Maven has done is...
LUCIAN JAMES

In the past, (product placements) were negotiated in a somewhat informal way. What Maven Strategies ...
LUCIAN JAMES

In the past, [product placements] were negotiated in a somewhat informal way; what Maven Strategies ...
LUCIAN JAMES

In the past, product placements were negotiated in a somewhat informal way. What Maven Strategies ha...
LUCIAN JAMES

In the past, advertising campaigns have been planned long in advance. But now advertising has become...
LUCIAN JAMES

De atunci femeia-ascunde sub pleoape-o taina si-si misca geana parc-ar zice ca ea stie ceva, ce noi ...
LUCIAN BLAGA

He took her like He took my mother. To torment me! To kill me and keep me alive to live dead! She di...
LUCIAN BANE

SOSTRATUS: Observe then your injustice! You punish us who are but the slaves of Clotho's bidding, an...
LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA

We had them tied to the park fence and gave them enough rope so that they could eat. We had feed buc...
LUCIAN MITCHELL SR

We got them out right after the storm and kept them in the walls of the stable.
LUCIAN MITCHELL SR

I wasn't leaving. If you love animals like I love animals, you'd stick with it, too. We did what we ...
LUCIAN MITCHELL SR

Finances would help, anything they can spare, it doesn't have to be much. The business is gone. All ...
LUCIAN MITCHELL SR

We worked together the whole time. The whole crew works like a family. Mr. Sheldon made sure I had a...
LUCIAN MITCHELL SR

When they came to get us, I was glad to see my father again, glad to get the animals out, glad to be...
LUCIAN MITCHELL SR

I had just prayed and hoped, and I seen the boss coming in with the trucks and trailers. We had only...
LUCIAN MITCHELL SR

He acted like a champion. I guess I'm partial to him--he helped me out of that.
LUCIAN MITCHELL SR

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy t...
SIGMUND FREUD

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
SIGMUND FREUD

Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have...
SIGMUND FREUD

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instin...
SIGMUND FREUD

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.
SIGMUND FREUD

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men t...
SIGMUND FREUD

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting t...
SIGMUND FREUD

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feel...
SIGMUND FREUD

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of nee...
SIGMUND FREUD

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's e...
SIGMUND FREUD

If youth knew; if age could.
SIGMUND FREUD

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
SIGMUND FREUD

Where id was, there ego shall be.
SIGMUND FREUD

If you can't do it, give up!
SIGMUND FREUD

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
SIGMUND FREUD

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
SIGMUND FREUD

Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.
SIGMUND FREUD

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
SIGMUND FREUD

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
SIGMUND FREUD

The ego is not master in its own house.
SIGMUND FREUD

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.
SIGMUND FREUD

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
SIGMUND FREUD

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the co...
SIGMUND FREUD

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into r...
SIGMUND FREUD

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
SIGMUND FREUD

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinct...
SIGMUND FREUD

Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.
SIGMUND FREUD

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
SIGMUND FREUD

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
SIGMUND FREUD

Ever since I was little, I really loved boyish clothes - I had a real obsession with strict clothes,...
BELLA FREUD

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is...
SIGMUND FREUD

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
ANNA FREUD

Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.
CLEMENT FREUD

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few excepti...
SIGMUND FREUD

The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended fr...
SIGMUND FREUD

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved!
SIGMUND FREUD

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we...
SIGMUND FREUD

Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as...
SIGMUND FREUD

Dark, unfeeling and unloving powers determine human destiny.
SIGMUND FREUD

It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical ...
SIGMUND FREUD

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
SIGMUND FREUD

Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?
SIGMUND FREUD

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement �...
SIGMUND FREUD

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
SIGMUND FREUD

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of th...
SIGMUND FREUD

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
SIGMUND FREUD

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
SIGMUND FREUD

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us -- of becoming happy -- is not attainable: y...
SIGMUND FREUD

The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth,...
SIGMUND FREUD

I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are ...
SIGMUND FREUD

The only bodily organ which is really regarded as inferior is the atrophied penis, a girl's clitoris...
SIGMUND FREUD

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civil...
SIGMUND FREUD

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitut...
SIGMUND FREUD

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
SIGMUND FREUD

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be...
SIGMUND FREUD

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of...
SIGMUND FREUD

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; th...
SIGMUND FREUD

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
ANNA FREUD

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
SIGMUND FREUD

We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of thi...
SIGMUND FREUD

Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why...
SIGMUND FREUD

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the ...
SIGMUND FREUD

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling,...
SIGMUND FREUD

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he i...
SIGMUND FREUD

The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence tha...
SIGMUND FREUD

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is ther...
ANNA FREUD

By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.
SIGMUND FREUD

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psy...
SIGMUND FREUD

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
SIGMUND FREUD

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it a...
SIGMUND FREUD

The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the laym...
SIGMUND FREUD

Where id was, there shall ego be.
SIGMUND FREUD

Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any...
SIGMUND FREUD

Woe to you, my Princess, when I come... you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who ...
SIGMUND FREUD

The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
SIGMUND FREUD

The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power...
SIGMUND FREUD

I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who be...
SIGMUND FREUD

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
SIGMUND FREUD

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
SIGMUND FREUD

It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your who...
SIGMUND FREUD

The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forc...
SIGMUND FREUD

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego f...
SIGMUND FREUD

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individua...
SIGMUND FREUD

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with...
SIGMUND FREUD

It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the ...
SIGMUND FREUD

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect...
SIGMUND FREUD

No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed che...
SIGMUND FREUD

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am...
SIGMUND FREUD

These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware t...
SIGMUND FREUD

I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whethe...
SIGMUND FREUD

Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the ...
SIGMUND FREUD

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men t...
SIGMUND FREUD

My outer child is holding my inner-adult hostage
SIGMUND FREUD

Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them,...
SIGMUND FREUD

We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is un...
SIGMUND FREUD

Sexual love is undoubtedly one of the chief things in life, and the union of mental and bodily satis...
SIGMUND FREUD

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror...
SIGMUND FREUD

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man
SIGMUND FREUD

If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepar...
SIGMUND FREUD

One is very crazy when in love.
SIGMUND FREUD

We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay ...
SIGMUND FREUD

Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually ele...
SIGMUND FREUD

It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are...
SIGMUND FREUD

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
SIGMUND FREUD

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is the...
ANNA FREUD

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitut...
SIGMUND FREUD

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead....
SIGMUND FREUD

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotion...
ANNA FREUD

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legiti...
SIGMUND FREUD

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
SIGMUND FREUD

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of for...
SIGMUND FREUD

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the m...
SIGMUND FREUD

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of...
SIGMUND FREUD

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
SIGMUND FREUD

Time spent with cats is never wasted.
SIGMUND FREUD

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great ...
SIGMUND FREUD

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
SIGMUND FREUD

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
SIGMUND FREUD

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are...
SIGMUND FREUD

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other...
SIGMUND FREUD

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.
ANNA FREUD

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give...
SIGMUND FREUD

How can one know anything at all about people?
ANNA FREUD

Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.
ANNA FREUD

Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.
ANNA FREUD

Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.
ANNA FREUD

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.
ANNA FREUD

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.
ANNA FREUD

If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.
ANNA FREUD

Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice t...
ANNA FREUD

Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
ANNA FREUD

we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., ...
SIGMUND FREUD

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
SIGMUND FREUD

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it aw...
SIGMUND FREUD

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of ins...
SIGMUND FREUD

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
SIGMUND FREUD

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.
ANNA FREUD

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet...
SIGMUND FREUD

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If h...
SIGMUND FREUD

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace...
SIGMUND FREUD

Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence ...
ANNA FREUD

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
SIGMUND FREUD

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would prob...
SIGMUND FREUD

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despi...
SIGMUND FREUD

Anatomy is destiny.
SIGMUND FREUD

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the gi...
ANNA FREUD

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
SIGMUND FREUD

Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerit...
SIGMUND FREUD

In general we are reminded that the word heimlich is not unambiguous, but belongs to two sets of ide...
SIGMUND FREUD

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
SIGMUND FREUD

My different personalities leave me in peace now.
ANNA FREUD

Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.
CLEMENT FREUD

I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.

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Lucian Freud

I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.

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