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"Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed."

"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."

"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."

"One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it."

"Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting."

"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."

"We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes."
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"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."

"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."

"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."

"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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