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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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"You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself."
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"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."
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"In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting."
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"It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world."
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"A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth."
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"Writing and Painting are the same for me."
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"Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish."
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"If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock."
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"A painting that is well composed is half finished."
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"After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often."
Time
"Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open."
Books
"I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true."
People
"There is no self-portrait of me."
Self
"If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock."
Painting
"Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art."
Art
"On my first days here I did not start work immediately but, as planned, I took it easy for a few days - flicked through books, studied Japanese art a little."
Art
"There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits."
Appearance
"Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want."
Art
"All art is erotic."
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