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"Well, I have a very simple method of painting."
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"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."
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"Every song is like a painting."
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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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"It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president."
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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'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me."
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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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"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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"I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world."
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"We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes."
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"I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds."
Work
"Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great."
Life
"In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people."
Art
"After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface."
Character
"I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use."
Varnish
"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."
Reason
"If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary."
Needs
"Well, I have a very simple method of painting."
Painting
"Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics."
Aesthetics
"If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county."
Energy
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