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To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.

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William Dobell

my sitters get tired waiting for commissioned portraits. If they commission me they have to wait years sometimes because I discard so many.

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A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.

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Honing a thing down until you can still get through with economy, that's power.

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I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about my work. But not dangerously so.

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I am always worried whether I am doing my best work.

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So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation.

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