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"If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph."
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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."
"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality."
"But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it."
"Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal."
"A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object."
"One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it."
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