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"The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time."
"I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?"
"To forsake wisdom is to seek folly, to seek folly is to seek evil, to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil, and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death."
"Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional."
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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."
"And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."
"A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure."
"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."
"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."
"The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement."
"Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin."
"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."
"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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