"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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"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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"Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid."

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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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