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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."
"In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting."
"A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere."
"Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy."
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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."
"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."
"It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws."
"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."
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
"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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