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"Through a painting we can see the whole world."
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"Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed."
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"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
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"If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph."
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"The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand."
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"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."
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"I found I have to stay painting."
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"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
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"The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century."
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"You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself."
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"It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president."
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"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."
Life
"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."
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"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."
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"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
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"Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel."
Colors
"In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light."
Nature
"It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws."
Work
"Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic."
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"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."
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"Painters must speak through paint, not through words."
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