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"I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting."
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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."
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"On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting."
"I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own."
"Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was."
"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."
"I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge."
"The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating."
"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."
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