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


Lucian Freud

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of t...
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION
We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD
Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him hi...
R. D. LAING
I've met lots of interesting people, but Lucian Freud is the one who sticks out because I spent ...
KATE MOSS
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings...
PAUL CEZANNE
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be...
PAUL CEZANNE
He has a great attitude. His obsession is definitely a benefit to him and to our program.
JAYSON DUFFY
The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the aut...
JERRY LEWIS
I love Clint Eastwood, and I wish to work with him again. He's completely irreverent about every...
LAURA DERN
A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himsel...
LUCIAN FREUD
No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into...
DYLAN THOMAS
I used to hang out with grandfather all the time because he used to pick me up from school sometimes...
CHRIS ROCK
The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if h...
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE
It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Ren...
SALLY MANN
I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless ba...
H. P. LOVECRAFT
The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
I like a spirituality with a God that knows how to drive a car, that knows how to take his girl to t...
JEFF BUCKLEY
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been wi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON
The idea of it is that these kids are all pacifists but have this obsession with guns, so it's a bit...
JAMIE BELL
The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and ...
BUCK OWENS
Most of my family doesn't speak English. It's so important for the baby. He's going to k...
CAMILA ALVES
I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. ...
AL PACINO
Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist...
JOHN IRVING
And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all...
CHAIM POTOK
How beautiful it is to live in a world with no walls.
MANAL AL-SHARIF
Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
VIGGO MORTENSEN
Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and the...
FERNANDO BOTERO
Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the supere...
TONY CAMPOLO
I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.
M. F. HUSAIN
The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to hi...
ROALD DAHL
The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have...
STEVEN PINKER
It is remarkable that a fist-gnawingly dire England performance still has the power to shock, when i...
MARINA HYDE
It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON
Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don't intend t...
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that &#...
MICHELLE OBAMA
I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster w...
SUSAN ORLEAN
If he is a subject of an investigation, that is a major problem for Republicans in New York, and he ...
RANDY DANIELS
I like to help kids, work with kids in detention homes. Don't tell a kid what's right and wr...
EVEL KNIEVEL
The subject of bisexuality really needs much more discussion. It's a status that does exist.
CLIVE DAVIS
David cuts through all the many needs, wants, and desires that may have been bouncing around inside ...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that's all it is about is opinions.
CHICK COREA
I advised him that the president needs to make clear to the American people, in a way that he did to...
DAVID BONIOR
But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's wor...
DAVID BOWIE
My son, who's on the spectrum is a very rigid thinker. He needs clear-cut definitions of right a...
CLAIRE SCOVELL LAZEBNIK
Brad Pitt has something about him to where he's played different characters in all his movies, a...
ZACK GREINKE
To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a ...
FRANK AUERBACH
The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possibl...
TOMMY HILFIGER
A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he'...
EDWARD DE BONO
I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look for...
WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING
I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look f...
WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING
I feel very optimistic about his decision, but he needs to be 110% between the breastplates because ...
MIKE MCCARTHY
Math is his favorite subject. That is the one he makes the best grades in. I went today to get home ...
FRANK LEVIER SR
The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into...
NICK CAVE
A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenanc...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Don Cheadle is up there for me. I've met him; he's a cool little dude. I admire his work.
DULE HILL
It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON
Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON
What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his...
JOSEPH M. DODGE
Zac Efron is my obsession, we're the same person. We're not actually here, it's like Jan...
MEGAN FOX
John Travolta, I don't think anybody would not jump at a chance to work with a guy like him beca...
ELIJAH KELLEY
Feed his growth. He needs somebody to feed him besides his mom.
JENNIFER SCOTT
A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks abou...
GEORGE WILL
My dream role is to portray someone like James Baldwin. I've always been a fan of his writing, a...
MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS
A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenan...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Robert de Niro has always been fascinating to me. And if John Cazale were still alive, that would be...
TATIANA MASLANY
I don't follow anything that's said about him much, but the Uwe Boll that I know is just a r...
MICHAEL EKLUND
The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else'...
AZAR NAFISI
I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matt...
ROBERT WISE
What is he? He's a puppeteer and he's got a lot of inspiration all around him, and the fact ...
JOE GRANT
Everyone's different, but it was fun for me to work with Garth Hudson. He's from 'The Ba...
TEDDY THOMPSON
With today's mass media obsession, it's good to be able to raise awareness about our environ...
ROBIN MCLEAVY
I'm a huge Springsteen fan, and yet if either he or Bob Dylan had to be erased from the world...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL
There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brillia...
SYLVESTER STALLONE
I think it's an opportunity for him to really take the time now, that he has the time, to look at al...
JOSEPH VOLPE
It is an amazing contradiction: a society that frowns on a woman going out without a man; that force...
MANAL AL-SHARIF
If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me,...
ANNE ROIPHE
There's something about the good-hearted guy fighting the system. I just love that. That's h...
EMILE HIRSCH
The king is so subtle with his words that he would confound the apostolic religion itself. He will f...
THOMAS BECKET
What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his...
JOSEPH MORRELL DODGE
What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his...
JOSEPH M. DODGE
We were like captive animals that had lost the will to fight. We even went so far as to defend the v...
MANAL AL-SHARIF
So you’re the infamous Manal al-Sharif,” he said, eyeing me from behind his desk. “Aren’t yo...
MANAL AL-SHARIF
We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.
CHARLES EAMES
The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO
Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO
Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO
The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO
Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO
We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO
Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO
I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO
We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO
I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO
Very few people have actually read Freud, but everyone seems prepared to talk about him in that Wood...
BILLY COLLINS
Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants t...
BRIAN SETZER
We're very excited about Danny's development. The experience that he gained last season plus his off...
SCOTT SQUIRES
He Freud often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governin...
THEODOR REIK
He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, govern...
THEODOR REIK

More Lucian Freud

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
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
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