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"With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public."
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"When a problem or a difficult situation arises, say to yourself, as if you already believe it: 'This is for my benefit."

"You erased my famine, unpicked my angerYour energy charges my voice, it radiates my heart;Now I am alive with the ore of words pouringFrom my lips like molten lava glittering with joy."

"When you read my poems or quotes remember you're stepping into the mind that steps outside of me."

"Let all of life be an unfettered howl."

"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought."

"I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don't blame me! The bastards drove me to it! They all backed off after that!"

"I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him."

"America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing."
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"The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings."


"I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing."


"My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life."


"Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors."
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