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"I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting."
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"Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed."
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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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"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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"He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting."
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"The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century."
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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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"Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting."
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"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."
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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 always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting."
Painting
"I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious."
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"I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation."
Family
"Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art."
Art
"I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns... your thought process goes on."
Time
"I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens."
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"The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does."
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