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"Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."
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"I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be."

"The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn."

"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."

"When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't."

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"As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does."

"The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement."

"I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong."
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