"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."

Body, Choice, Painting, Will

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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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"If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

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"The body is not a reliable friend."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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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."

Truth

"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."

Work

"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."

Interest

"The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work."

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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."

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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."

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"The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art."

Nature

"The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement."

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"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."

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