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.Lucian Freud
The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.
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The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
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It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.
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The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.
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The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.
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