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"When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that."
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"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
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"There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so."

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

"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."

"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."

"The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice."

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

"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."

"I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them."
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