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"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."
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"Painting and writing are solitary arts."
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"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."
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"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
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"One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it."
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"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."
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"Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting."
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"I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium and this is why I have moved towards painting."
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"Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't."
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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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"I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world."
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"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
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"In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false."
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"It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory."
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"What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming."
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"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."
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"Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty."
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"No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters."
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"Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it."
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