"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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"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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"He was certain he was anorectic, because every time he looked in a mirror he saw a fat man. It was the Archchancellor, standing behind him and shouting at him."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you're using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although maybe something to do with reaction, the speed of reaction, maybe that was of use during the training."

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"To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body."

Francis Bowen, American Philosopher

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"I don't have a problem with my body. I'm not just going to strip off all my clothing, but if the part calls for it and I don't think there's any way round, I'm absolutely fine."

Keira Knightley, English Actress

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"Respect for right conduct is felt by every body."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"A boxer must exercise and develop every part of his body."

Gene Tunney, American Athlete

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"Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"It is the mind that makes the body."

Sojourner Truth, American Activist

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"The body is the substance of the stone."

George Ripley, American Activist

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"Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else."

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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

"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

"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."

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

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

Art

"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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"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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"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."

Interest