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"When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years."
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"It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible."
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"Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward."
"When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see."
"In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art."
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