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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."
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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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"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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"Writing and Painting are the same for me."
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"Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish."
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"A painting that is well composed is half finished."
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"A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere."
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"I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting."
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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."
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"The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art."
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"When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen."
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"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."
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"Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is."
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"I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting."
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"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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"The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces."
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"I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own."
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"I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc."
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