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"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
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"I want to die painting."
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"But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it."
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"Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal."
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"Well, I have a very simple method of painting."
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"Painting is a hobby for me."
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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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"The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery."
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"The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century."
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"Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish."
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"From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born."
Delight
"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
People
"A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it."
Pain
"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands."
Man
"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."
Beauty
"Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven."
Love
"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
"I am still learning."
Learning
"I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived."
Life
"The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has."
Thought
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