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"When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing."
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"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else."
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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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"It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement."
"I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc."
"Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was."
"When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen."
"I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge."
"I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting."
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