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"I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting."
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"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
"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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"Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane."
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"When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own."
"Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within."
"The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces."
"It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well."
"It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement."
"The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating."
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