"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality."

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"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality."

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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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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."

Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist

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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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"In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob."

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"Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation."

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"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."

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"Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die."

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"Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums."

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"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."

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"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since."

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"I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it."

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"Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid."

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"There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad."

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