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"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else."
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"There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug."
"It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more."
"The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted."
"You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real."
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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
"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."
"I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings."
"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
"Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy."
"If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph."
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