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"I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more."
"I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities."
"The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence."
"Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor."
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"I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them."
"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."
"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."
"Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen."
"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."
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