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"If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush."
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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."
"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality."
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"Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal."
"A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object."
"One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it."
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