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"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality."
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"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else."

"A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape."

"We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes."

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

"If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens."

"I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall."
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"Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision."


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