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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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"We have our own reasons for what's motivating us right now."

"Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail."

"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."
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"The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing."

"I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem."

"Ask yourself: was there anything I could have done to prevent the situation? If the answer is yes, do something now and become a better person for it."
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"The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now."
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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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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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