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"Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that."
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"Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him."

"The power of imagination is a miracle."
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"As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion."


"One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space."


"Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life."


"When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive."


"I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea."


"The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another."


"I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason."
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