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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."
"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality."
"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."
"Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal."
"A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object."
"One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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