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"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
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"One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters."
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"You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself."
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"Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't."
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"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."
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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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"He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting."
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"What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture."
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"Sunlight is painting."
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"I live and love in God's peculiar light."
Love
"I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all."
Love
"From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born."
Delight
"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
Painting
"The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone."
Thought
"If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master."
Death
"I am still learning."
Learning
"The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course."
Self-Reliance
"It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges."
Awareness
"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?"
Appreciation
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