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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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"As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does."
"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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"A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure."
"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."
"I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them."
"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."
"Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen."
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