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"I have sworn to die painting."
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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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"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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"I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain."
"Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones."
"For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations."
"The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it."
"I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me."
"The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings."
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