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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.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

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.

I hope I will be able to paint as long as I live.

I have continued to paint; my father - who was savaged by the critics - continued to paint until practically the last week of his life.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

I'm not going to sit for some painting. That's so 1800s. I'm not doing that.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.