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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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"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
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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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"Painting is a hobby for me."
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"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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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"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."
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"Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects."
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"Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist."
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