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"Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't."
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"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else."
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"If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock."
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"A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape."
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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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"My painting does not come from the easel."
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"When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing."
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"Painting is a hobby for me."
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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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"If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens."
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"I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall."
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"Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience."
Experience
"I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion."
Age
"People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day."
Soul
"The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution."
Carrot
"Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation."
Art
"An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all."
Art
"I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing."
Nothing
"Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones."
Shadow
"For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations."
Nature
"We live in a rainbow of chaos."
Chaos
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