The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.
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The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.
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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 must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.
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You ask why I'm fascinated by the human figure? As a human animal, I am interested in some of my fellow animals: in their minds and bodies.
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And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.
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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.
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Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.
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When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't.
