"I have a timetable, but no routine."
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"The painting is always done very much with [the model's] co-operation. The problem with painting a nude, of course, is that it deepens the transaction. You can scrap a painting of someone's face and it imperils the sitter's self-esteem less than scrapping a painting of the whole naked body."
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"The paintings live because their creator has been passionately attentive to their theme, and his attention has left something for us to look at. It seems a sort of miracle."
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"I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong."
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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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"A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure."
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"The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming"
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"I have a hatred of habit and routine. And what dogs love is just that. They like regular everything, and I don't have regular anything. I have a timetable, but no routine."
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