” They don’t realize that it’s a life of self-discipline even though that self discipline may be self indulgence, it’s never the less a discipline or no work could be done. People assume -it’s an amazing idea- that the art that’s produce comes out by mistake like a kind byproduct of this extraordinary anarchic, idyllic, undiscipline way of life but I’ve never heard of anyone working like this”
-Lucian Freud on people’s perception vs the reality of an artist life
Foto Lucian Freud por Ian Gibson Smith.1943
WW2 changed things…..
¨In 1936, more than 80% of Americans believed that women should not work if their husbands had a job and laws were proposed that would prohibit married women from workin¨