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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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"I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting."
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"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
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"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."
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"Writing and Painting are the same for me."
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"Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed."
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"Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane."
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"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."
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"Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour."
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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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"Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need."
Reflection
"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."
Painting
"The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one."
Difference
"Layer by layer art strips life bare."
Life
"All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!"
God
"It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it."
Nothing
"The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined."
Art
"Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop."
Progress
"On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room."
People
"It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them."
Creativity
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