A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.
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The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.Lucian Freud
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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Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.
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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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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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