Avoidance

-everdeen:

I suppose in the end, they break my heart.

(Source: -everdeen)

AnotherMag | In Memory of Lucian Freud

He eschewed fashion and art movements and paid little attention to the continual re-appraisal of his work. For him it was blatantly simple; it was all about the painting.

The Telegraph | Art Obituaries: Lucian Freud

Thus, after numerous sittings, the 11th Duke of Devonshire was summoned back to Freud’s studio because the artist had not got the silk of his subject’s shirt quite right. “Rembrandt would have done it, and I’m damn well going to do it too,” said Freud. The remark revealed not only the standards Freud hoped to emulate, but also the hunger of a great painter to inspire the sort of reaction to art had by Jose Ortega y Gasset on first seeing Las Meninas: “This isn’t art, it’s life perpetuated.”

The God of Small Things: Lucian Freud Captured on Film

Alas I’m only too full of convictions.  I burn with suppressed anger and indignation.  But my ideal of art demands that the artist shows none of this, and that he appears in his work no more than god in nature.  The man is nothing, the work is everything.

Films I Like the Most of All - as of right now .
(92/130) | Joyeux Noel (2005, dir. Christian Carion)

General Audebert: You’re talking nonsense.

Lieutenant Audebert: No, you’re just not living the same war as me. Or as those on the other side. 

Graham Chapman’s memorial service