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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 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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"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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"Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish."
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"If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens."
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"I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream."
Art
"Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live."
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"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model."
Creativity
"But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things."
Love
"And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them."
Education
"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."
Nature
"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."
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"The way to know life is to love many things."
Philosophy
"Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it."
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"When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars."
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