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"It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president."
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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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"I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting."
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"The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand."
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"If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph."
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"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
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"If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study."
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"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else."
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"If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens."
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"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."
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"If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study."
Painting
"Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything."
Creativity
"I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities."
Art
"Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that."
Money
"The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country."
Art
"Art is too serious to be taken seriously."
Art
"Art is Art. Everything else is everything else."
Art
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