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My best work is always done ... when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery.
— William Dobell
So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation.
— William Dobell
The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.
— William Dobell
I'm begging you don't give up on me.
— S.C. Stephens
Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people. If they care, they'll notice. If they don't, you know where you stand.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Frankie Perino and I were lucky that day. Lucky to be alive-that's what everyone said.
— Sarah Ockler
Surely as cometh the Winter, I knowThere are Spring violets under the snow. — Robert Henry Newell
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.
— 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.
— William Dobell
I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.
— William Dobell
Anybody. She uses her body like I use the loose
— Mario Puzo
I am always worried whether I am doing my best work.
— William Dobell