As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I want paint to work as flesh.
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.
People say, 'Why don't you just paint with paintbrushes?' I say that I feel more connected to my painting using my skin. It's very tribal in a way - savage!
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.
That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my paintings. Which is fine, I guess. Unless you're buying it, and it's of your kid!
Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.
It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
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