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"My painting does not come from the easel."
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"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."
"In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting."
"Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane."
"Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal."
"When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing."
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"When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own."
"Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within."
"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."
"I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own."
"I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge."
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