"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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"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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"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."

Emotional

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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."

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

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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."

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

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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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