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"Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't."
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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 is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't."
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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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"I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain."
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"Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre."
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"When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art."
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"Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't."
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"I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing."
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"I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs."
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"Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know."
Wonder
"If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain."
Isolation
"The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself."
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"My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me."
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