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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 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."
"I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them."
"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."
"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."
"A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art."
"Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen."
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