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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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"I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting."
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"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
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"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."
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"Writing and Painting are the same for me."
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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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"Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane."
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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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"Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour."
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"The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery."
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"Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically."
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"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."
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"I got so I was really just sick of sculpture."
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"And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission."
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"I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this."
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"And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting."
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"And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway."
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"I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended."
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"You begin with the possibilities of the material."
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"Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965."
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