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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."

"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."

"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."

"One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it."

"Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting."

"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."

"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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"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."

"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."

"But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to."

"Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it."

"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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