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"Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it."
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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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"I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting."
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"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
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"Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed."
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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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"The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery."
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"Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy."
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"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."
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"One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters."
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"A painting that is well composed is half finished."
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"Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically."
Time
"And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission."
Time
"I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this."
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"And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway."
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"I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended."
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"You begin with the possibilities of the material."
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"Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965."
Time
"The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone."
Chance
"And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary."
Quality
"So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design."
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