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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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"You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself."
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"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."
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"In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting."
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"It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world."
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"Writing and Painting are the same for me."
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"Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish."
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"A painting that is well composed is half finished."
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"A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere."
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"Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy."
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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."
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"The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art."
Art

"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."
Work

"I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own."
Life

"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."
Beginning

"My painting does not come from the easel."
Painting

"When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing."
Painting

"He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting."
Painting

"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."
Difference

"The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through."
Life
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