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Lucian Freud

"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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"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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Akiroq Brost

"The proper stuff of fiction does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her as well as honour and love her for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."

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Akiroq Brost

"I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed."

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"Music gives life to the soul."

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Akiroq Brost

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

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"I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language."

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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

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"I see my life in terms of music."

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Akiroq Brost

"Professing not to care is a primordial defense mechanism. Whenever a person finds oneself mired in failure and despondency, rebelling is a viable option to preserve false personal pride."

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"Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer."

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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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"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 model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement."
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"My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings."
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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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"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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"Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid."
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"Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much."
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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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"I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them."
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