"A painting that is well composed is half finished."

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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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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."

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"He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting."

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"One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it."

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"Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting."

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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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"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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"I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky."

William Merritt Chase, American Artist

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"The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand."

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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."

Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist

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"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."

"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."

"He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting."

"One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it."

"Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting."

"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."

"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."

"I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky."

"The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand."

"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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