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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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"Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal."
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"I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world."
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"If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble."
"So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design."
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"Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965."
"Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three."
"I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested."
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