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"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
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"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else."
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"If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock."
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"A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape."
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"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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"My painting does not come from the easel."
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"When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing."
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"Painting is a hobby for me."
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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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"If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens."
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"I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall."
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"My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness."
Soul
"If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes."
Beauty
"Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him."
Love
"The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has."
Thought
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
Art
"A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it."
Pain
"Faith in oneself is the best and safest course."
Faith
"There is no greater harm than that of time wasted."
Time
"Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop."
Art
"I live and love in God's peculiar light."
Love
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