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"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."
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"I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man."
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"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."
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"I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have."
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"There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us."
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"We are meeting with Sony, and we have a couple of other labels that suddenly have interest and that's really great because none of them have actually heard our stuff."
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"They have to be able to spark my interest so I want to pursue it, and they have to have an awesome personality, really laid-back. All those things are sexy to me."
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"Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly."
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"I have no interest in directing. I'd be a bad director."
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"But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before."
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"The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest."
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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."
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"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."
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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."
Art

"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."
Truth

"A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure."
Being

"I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them."
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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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"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."
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"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."
Art

"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."
Life
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