I'm only trying to do what I can't do. — Lucian Freud

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I'm only trying to do what I can't do.

Lucian Freud

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Pushing one's limits Personal growth

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Lucian Freud

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Freud, Lucian. Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere. Interviewed by Michael Kimmelman. Random House, 1998, p. 109.

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