Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.


Lucian Freud

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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