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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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"When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium."
"What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation."
"Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony."
"My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature."
"The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization."
"Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced."
"An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea."
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