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"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."
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"That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done."

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"The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting."

"Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics."

"In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people."

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"I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use."

"My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature."

"I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds."
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