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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.

A Painter Must Think Of Everything He Sees As Being There Entirely For His Own Use And Pleasure.

The Aura Given Out By A Person Or Object Is As Much A Part Of Them As Their Flesh.

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.

A Moment Of Complete Happiness Never Occurs In The Creation Of A Work Of Art. The Promise Of It Is Felt In The Act Of Creation But Disappears Towards The Completion Of The Work. For It Is Then The Painter Realises That It Is Only A Picture He Is Painting. Until Then He Had Almost Dared To Hope The Picture Might Spring To Life.