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"I have sworn to die painting."
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"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."
"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
"I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings."
"I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world."
"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."
"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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"Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones."
"Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors."
"When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art."
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