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"Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy."
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"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."
"In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting."
"Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal."
"But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it."
"A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object."
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"If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens."
"A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day."
"I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene."
"I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people."
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