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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."
"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
"One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it."
"Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting."
"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."
"We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes."
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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."
"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."
"Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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