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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 n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
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"If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph."
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"The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand."
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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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"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
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"You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself."
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"It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president."
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"Painting is a hobby for me."
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"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."
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"Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression."
Time
"Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system."
People
"It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it."
Nothing
"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
"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
"A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses."
Perception
"Layer by layer art strips life bare."
Life
"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
"Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need."
Reflection
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