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"A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
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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."
Work
"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."
People
"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
"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."
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"My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings."
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"Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin."
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