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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.

I Use The Gallery As If It Were A Doctor. I Come For Ideas And Help - To Look At Situations Within Painting, Rather Than Paintings.

When I Look At A Body It Gives Me Choice Of What To Put In A Painting, What Will Suit Me And What Won't

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.

The Only Way I Could Work Properly Was By Using The Absolute Maximum Of Observation And Concentration That I Could Possible Muster.