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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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"You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself."
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"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."
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"He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting."
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"I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings."
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"In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting."
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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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"A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth."
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"Writing and Painting are the same for me."
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"I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art."
Art
"Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish."
Painting
"I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings."
Desire
"Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really."
Language
"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."
Painting
"I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings."
Will
"Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle."
Experience
"One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil."
Art
"The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings."
Nothing
"Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible."
Chaos
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