I want paint to work as flesh.


Lucian Freud

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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
WAYNE THIEBAUD
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
I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lack...
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
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
I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.
JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD
Have you ever loved anyone?"
"You mean besides my mum?"
Luke was dumbfounded as he stared ...
LORRAINE HEATH
- As wiccanfae não merecem estar entre nós...e Tir Alainn não é o lugar delas.
- Nesse ca...
ANNE BISHOP
I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their port...
GEORG BASELITZ
Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love o...
LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN
There are some other paint stores that are great, and they'll mix your paint, but not as close as yo...
JOSEPH HAYES
The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have...
STEVEN PINKER
I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying...
ELLSWORTH KELLY
I've met lots of interesting people, but Lucian Freud is the one who sticks out because I spent ...
KATE MOSS
Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
MA JIAN
Very few people have actually read Freud, but everyone seems prepared to talk about him in that Wood...
BILLY COLLINS
I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I wan...
EMMA WATSON
It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.
STEVEN WRIGHT
It's a small world but I wouldn't want to paint it.
STEVEN WRIGHT
I don't want to paint myself into a corner,'' he said.
THE ARCHIVES
I don't want to paint rainbows: I want to make art that disturbs identity and challenges authori...
AMAN MOJADIDI
I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work.
BILL SIENKIEWICZ
If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.
RANDY PAUSCH
I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.
FRIDA KAHLO
Sigmund Freud once said, "What do women want?" The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is t...
BILL COSBY
No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into...
DYLAN THOMAS
I used to paint model soldiers as a kid.
CARL BECKER
People say, 'What a discipline, painting so much.' I say, 'No, I love it.' Nothing a...
FERNANDO BOTERO
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
BILL CONDON
I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
FAREED ZAKARIA
Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody."

"You're showing mercy." Catch-...
LLOYD ALEXANDER
Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
VIGGO MORTENSEN
I am not comfortable with the life-against-death generalization that Freud makes; it strikes me as t...
PETER GAY
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
PABLO PICASSO
I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.
PABLO PICASSO
I only feel, but want the power to paint. [Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
WILLEM DE KOONING
It’s not as easy as you’d think, burning a dead creature. Flesh and skin want to cook and crisp ...
CHRISTINA HENRY
The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as...
EMIL NOLDE
It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.
STEVEN WRIGHT
Ivory was thought to very closely approximate human flesh. Like makeup you could put on a very thin ...
BETSY WIESEMAN
I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful pa...
ALBERT OEHLEN
Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies.
HELEN MIRREN
I want each and every entire brushstroke to be seen. I want the marks made by the tip of the brush t...
CHRIS RASCHKA
When you get up there, it's just so peaceful and you just want to capture it. As many times as you p...
JUANITA LONGWELL
I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.
HENRI DE TOULOUSE LAUTREC
Sure we could replace war with paintball battles. But it would escalate to paint grenades, paint bom...
DAN FLORENCE
When God paints with me, my work is divine, and when I paint alone its not.
JIM GENOVESE
It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word
WILLIAM H. GASS
I paint things as they are. I don't comment.
HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC
I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird.
ETHEL MERMAN
Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.
ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY
Ideas can turn flesh only when we sufficiently apply imagination & then go to work.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
It doesn't matter how badly you paint as long as you don't paint badly like other people
FRANK WYNNE
We need not deplore the renunciation of historical truth when we put forward rational grounds for th...
SIGMUND FREUD
Thus I must contradict you when you go on to argue that men are completely unable to do without the ...
SIGMUND FREUD
Freud changes our reading habits.
ADAM PHILLIPS
They try to paint it as easy as they can.
ROY CERVANTES
Balthazar pledged to die defending his royal house of Lumuatere. Finnikin swore to be their protecto...
MELINA MARCHETTA
I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
INGMAR BERGMAN
I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
INGRID BERGMAN
I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.
FRIDA KAHLO
I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materia...
MIKE THOMPSON
If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe ...
CHARLOTTE RAMPLING
Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
HENRI ROUSSEAU
Whenever I see a Frans Hals, I feel the desire to paint; but when I see a Rembrandt, I want to give ...
MAX LIEBERMANN
If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?
LLOYD ALEXANDER
Work. Like pain, I sensed that this was an experience I would want to avoid as often as possible.
JOANNE HARRIS
I want 'Flesh Of My Flesh' to be like my connection to the community, I want to say what'...
DMX
You said you didn't want to paint a bleak picture, but you have.
JAMES MCDANIEL
You are looking as fresh as paint.
F. E. SMEDLEY
I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what i...
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER
I like to work; I like to be creative. I work in the entertainment industry where work may come up, ...
LOUISE NURDING
The Lyon is not so fierce as they paint him. [The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.]
GEORGE HERBERT
My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is large...
PETER GAY
I like Cronenberg's early work; his '80s films had all these weird, amorphous flesh objects ...
AUTRE NE VEUT
I don't paint what people expect,
I paint what my heart yearns to express.
NIKKI ROWE
Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY
What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they...
IAN HORNAK
I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.
MARGARET ATWOOD
Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let t...
RANDY PAUSCH
Even though I know who I am, musically I'm a blank canvas. I know what colors I want to use, but...
BECKY G
As I approached 60, I decided I did not want to work full-time until I was 65,
HARVEY GOLUB
If I work on a movie for two months, I should be able to dance on as many tables as I want to.
TARA REID

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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.
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I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lack...
LUCIAN FREUD
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
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The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject not...
LUCIAN FREUD
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Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
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The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.
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The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
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Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of n...
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A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himsel...
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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...
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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...
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Such a deep silence surrounds me, that I think I hear moonbeams striking on the windows.
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In the past, (product placements) were negotiated in a somewhat informal way. What Maven has done is...
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In the past, advertising campaigns have been planned long in advance. But now advertising has become...
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De atunci femeia-ascunde sub pleoape-o taina si-si misca geana parc-ar zice ca ea stie ceva, ce noi ...
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He took her like He took my mother. To torment me! To kill me and keep me alive to live dead! She di...
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We had them tied to the park fence and gave them enough rope so that they could eat. We had feed buc...
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We got them out right after the storm and kept them in the walls of the stable.
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I wasn't leaving. If you love animals like I love animals, you'd stick with it, too. We did what we ...
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Finances would help, anything they can spare, it doesn't have to be much. The business is gone. All ...
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We worked together the whole time. The whole crew works like a family. Mr. Sheldon made sure I had a...
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When they came to get us, I was glad to see my father again, glad to get the animals out, glad to be...
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I had just prayed and hoped, and I seen the boss coming in with the trucks and trailers. We had only...
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He acted like a champion. I guess I'm partial to him--he helped me out of that.
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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...
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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.
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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men t...
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The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting t...
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If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feel...
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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...
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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