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"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."
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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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"You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself."
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"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."
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"In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting."
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"It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world."
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"Writing and Painting are the same for me."
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"Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish."
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"A painting that is well composed is half finished."
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"A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere."
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"Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy."
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"My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die."
Time
"I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it."
Music
"The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy."
Thought
"You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining."
Clarity
"This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms."
Lie
"Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal."
Holly
"We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy."
War
"Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at."
People
"I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?"
Happiness
"Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell."
Sorrow
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