"I try to keep my sitters moving and……" — Oskar Kokoschka

"I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do with extracting intimate secrets or confessions, but rather with establishing, in motion, an essential image of the kind that remains in memory or recurs in dreams."

— Oskar Kokoschka

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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. — Saint Augustine
Acting is a form of confession. — Tallulah Bankhead
As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As… — Saint Basil
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive. — Orlando Aloysius Battista
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.… — Jean Baudrillard
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. — Max Beerbohm
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed… — Josh Billings
Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due… — William J. Brennan
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. — Albert Camus
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good… — Giacomo Casanova
To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry… — Shane Claiborne

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