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"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else."
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"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it 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."
"Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting."
"Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy."
"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
"I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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