The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.
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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.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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Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.
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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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The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
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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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