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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.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

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

I love painting so much that nothing else matters.

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.

I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.