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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The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.Lucian Freud
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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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 use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within painting, rather than paintings.
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I have a hatred of habit and routine. And what dogs love is just that. They like regular everything, and I don't have regular anything.
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