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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."

"I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting."

"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."

"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."

"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."

"The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery."

"Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy."

"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."

"One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters."
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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."

"Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision."

"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."

"What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust."
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