#me

I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men. ↗

— Clement Freud

#beaten #because #being #done #excellent

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. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#bacon #called #difficult #fascination #felt

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#being #between #distinction #does #element

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

— Sigmund Freud

#imagine #immoral #men #moral #more

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

— Sigmund Freud

#angry person #began #cast #civilization #first

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#ego #every #extent #fact #greater

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

— Sigmund Freud

#before #everywhere #find #go #i

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#comes #complain #defend #her #illness

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#just #sometimes

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

— Sigmund Freud

#feel #home #make #more #nothing