The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.
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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 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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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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I want paint to work as flesh.
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