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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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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."
"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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"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."
"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 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 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."
"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."
"One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there."
"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."
"Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three."
"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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