Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
From Lucian Freud
I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.
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.
The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.
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.
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.
I never think about my style but just try and make the pictures look believable.
A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.
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.
As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.
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