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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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"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."
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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."
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"But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to."
Communication

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

"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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"I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended."
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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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