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"But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to."
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"When we miss understanding, we meet misunderstanding. Misunderstanding always pushes understanding far away!"

"The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words."

"Words don't get accident, hands and tongues drive them wrongly!"

"If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?"

"When it occurs without having to voice it - vibin' on the same page, flowin' on the same wave, soakin' up the same light rays."

"Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a thousand gibberish."

"Confrontation affords you the opportunity to hear the other side of the story."

"Don't bother to ring a bell in the ear that doesn't listen. Move to another ear, and if he doesn't listen to your bell, sit back and listen to his nemesis."

"Silence can answer the question words may fail to answer. If you want to know what silence can do, keep silence!"
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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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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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