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"Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel."
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"We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them."
"Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence."
"Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions."
"Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused."
"The colors I use may clash or vibrate against one another but this is done intentionally."
"Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash."
"I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings."
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"My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature."
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
"Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world."
"The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization."
"It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws."
"The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color."
"What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation."
"Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced."
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