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"It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place."
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"What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't."
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"You want the audience to be uncomfortable."
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"It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone."
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"I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything."
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"With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl."
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"I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks."
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"I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it."
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"If you want to be happy, be."
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"I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go."
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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."
Interest

"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."
Body

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

"The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work."
Work

"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."
Emotional

"Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen."
Will

"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."
Art

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

"A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure."
Being

"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."
Art
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