Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.

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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.

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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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The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.

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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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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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A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.

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Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.

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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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