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"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else."
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"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."
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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
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"One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters."
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"I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky."
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"You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself."
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"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else."
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"Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't."
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"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."
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"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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"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."
Life
"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."
Imagination
"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."
Authenticity
"I would kiss you, had I the courage."
Love
"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else."
Painting
"This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man."
Work
"There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another."
Nature
"Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity."
Taste
"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."
Interest
"I need to work to feel well."
Work
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