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

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

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"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."

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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."

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

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"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."

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"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."

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"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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"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."

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

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"Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much."

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