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"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else."
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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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"You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself."
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"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."
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"He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting."
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"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."
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"In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting."
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"It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world."
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"A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth."
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"Writing and Painting are the same for me."
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"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 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
"Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail."
Criticism
"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
"I would kiss you, had I the courage."
Love
"This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man."
Work
"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else."
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