#ra

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#artist #character #enter #into #nature

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

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

— Sigmund Freud

#imagine #immoral #men #moral #more

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#belligerent #disgrace #every #individual #itself

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

I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up. ↗

— Glenn Frey

#dress #i #just #maniac #monster

I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living. ↗

— Glenn Frey

#dad #dynamic #every #i #insufferable

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties. ↗

— Wilhelm Frick

#been #carried #duties #dutiful #duty

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger. ↗

— Nancy Friday

#anger #because #been #cut #face

To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off. ↗

— Nancy Friday

#clothes #hardest #nice #off #people