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"Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the 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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"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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"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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"There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain."
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"But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to."
Communication

"I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else."
Responsibility

"I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested."
Being

"The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone."
Chance

"And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary."
Quality

"But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable."
Thought

"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."
Painting

"If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble."
Needs

"So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design."
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