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- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Paint
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want paint to work as flesh.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.
- Copy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Much
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- Nov 07, 2020
The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
- Only
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The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.
- Free
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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.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Depends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never think about my style but just try and make the pictures look believable.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
You ask why I'm fascinated by the human figure? As a human animal, I am interested in some of my fellow animals: in their minds and bodies.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Copy
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- Nov 07, 2020