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"When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing."
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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."
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"Sunlight is painting."
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"I want to die painting."
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"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."
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"Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal."
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"Well, I have a very simple method of painting."
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"Painting is a hobby for me."
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"It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world."
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"Writing and Painting are the same for me."
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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."
Difference
"The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces."
Art
"The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art."
Art
"The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through."
Life
"My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout."
Interest
"I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting."
Work
"He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting."
Painting
"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."
Time
"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."
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"The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating."
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