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"My painting does not come from the easel."
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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."
"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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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
"The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery."
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"On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting."
"Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was."
"When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen."
"It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well."
"The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating."
"It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement."
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