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"I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world."
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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."

"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."

"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."

"The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery."

"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."
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"A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper."

"I think maybe chance works better in a situation like music because music exists over a period of time, and you don't maintain constantly the you can't refer back from one area to another area."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."
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