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We weren't listening to guitar bands, we were thoroughly ashamed of being a guitar band. So we bought loads of keyboards and learned how to use them, and when we got bored we went back to guitars.

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All of us take an interest, to a greater or lesser extent, in what people around us look like, what they are doing, and why they are doing it.

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People fascinate me. Consciously or unconsciously, I have been studying their behavior all my life.

Consciously, Humanity, Life, People, Study, Studying

Sometimes, in a portrait, I go straight in with paint onto canvas. . . Other than riding my bike up and down the hills around here, it is the most dangerous thing I do. . . like tightrope-walking without a safety net!

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As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits. . . the people in his paintings were so real I felt I knew them. . . It is his empathy for the sitter, combined with his enjoyment and dexerity in handling paint that captured my imagination then, and is what I am striving for still.

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Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most complex organism on the planet, into flicks, washes, and blobs of paint on a two-dimensional surface.

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