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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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"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."
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"If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph."
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"Through a painting we can see the whole world."
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"I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting."
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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 don't know if it was the whole audience getting stoned out of their minds getting ready for the Floyd thing or what it was, but it was like playing to a painting."
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"Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting."
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"Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation."
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"Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy."
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"I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium and this is why I have moved towards painting."
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"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures."
Nature


"My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes of reality, so that they may become, yes, untruth if you like - but more true than the literal truth."
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"There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke."
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"I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."
Love


"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."
Nature


"Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire."
Freedom


"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."
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"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well."
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"And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them."
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"Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."
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