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Fashion is the pursuit of perfection, Style is the acceptance of one's flaws.
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When you sit for an hour and a half in front of somebody, he or she shows about twenty faces. And so…
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Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it?' But, hopefully, it is beautiful.
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When I look at a drawing of a person, I look at that person as living.
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That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.
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I'm at the age where I don't need an acid trip to feel naked... to feel that I don't exist. Now a…
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In my head I am in one of those Buddhist caves where you see a thousand Buddha faces on the wall. In…
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My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.
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Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat…
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There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold…
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To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we…
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I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.
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I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On…
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It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers. Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin…
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Then I noticed that my shadow was crying too, shedding clear, sharp shadow tears. Have you ever seen the shadows of tears,…
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Please, please, help me grow to be like them, the ones'll soon be here, who never grow old, can't die, that's what…
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I try to think of something catchy to say, but there's nothing but irritation that something that was funny yo an eleven-year-old…
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He was the most perfectly formed man she'd ever imagined. He was movie stars, men in underwear commercials, guys at the gym,…
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia…
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I went to the University of Washington at Seattle. I had made a vow to never stay in my home state to…
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