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"I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting."
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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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"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 have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."
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"You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame."
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"The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand."
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"In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting."
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"What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture."
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"I felt I was painting with a Popsicle."
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"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else."
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"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."
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"I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting."
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"Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art."
Art
"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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"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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"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."
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