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"When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else."
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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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"I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits."
Art
"Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten."
Saying
"My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms."
Friendship
"When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else."
Painting
"I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings."
Work
"I hate painting."
Hate
"I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient."
Self
"A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object."
Painting
"In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like."
Thought
"I am isolated as an artist, not as a person."
Isolation
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