"The art I like concentrates on the body. I don't have a feel for Poussin, but for Courbet, VelÃ¡squez - artists who get to the flesh. Visceral artists - Bacon, Freud. And de Kooning, of course. He's really my man. He doesn't depict anything, yet it's more than representation, it's about the meaning of existence and pushing the medium of paint."

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Source : "Under the skin" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2005.

Jenny Saville

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“I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not (and whether we believe in God or not). So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.”
“I don't really dress up for Halloween.”
“Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire”
“Small Data is not about testing concepts - it is more to create the foundation for innovative brand thinking.”

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“I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss is another thing altogether, and an amusement I cannot well afford.”
“I feel that it is no less interesting to be a trainer than to play oneself. I even take greater delight in the tournament successes of my lads than I do in my own.”
“Love is the real nuclear bomb that destroys all our enemies, because when we love all living beings, we have no enemies.”
“The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.”

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