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"Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance."
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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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"You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself."
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"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."
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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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"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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"A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth."
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"Writing and Painting are the same for me."
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"Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish."
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"If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock."
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"A painting that is well composed is half finished."
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"You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good."
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"Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain."
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"You'd be surprised at how undemanding acting is."
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"The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass."
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"I kind of just lucked into and fell into the other profession. It was really just an outgrowth of the fact that when I was in art school, I had no money whatsoever."
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"Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance."
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"It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with."
American

"Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque."
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"I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing."
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"Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your head."
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