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• The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
• The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.
• I want paint to work as flesh... my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of…
• I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie,…
• I don't want any colour to be noticeable... I don't want it to operate in the modernist sense as colour, something independent...…
• The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that…
• I have a hatred of habit and routine. And what dogs love is just that. They like regular everything, and I don't…
• I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior…
• I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they…
• When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and…
• I have a timetable, but no routine.
• The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he…

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