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"Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't."
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"Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed."
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"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."
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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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"The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century."
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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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"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."
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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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"The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it."
Nature
"I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain."
Art
"Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones."
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"For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations."
Nature
"Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre."
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"The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it."
World
"I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me."
Age
"If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain."
Isolation
"Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't."
Painting
"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"
Art
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