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

Work

"My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings."

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"I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong."

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"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."

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

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"I want paint to work as flesh."

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

Now

"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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