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"I think words come between the spectator and the picture."
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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
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"To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him."
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"I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself."
"My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms."
"A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy."
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"I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing."
"A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object."
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