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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."
"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."
"What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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