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"When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else."
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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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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
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"One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters."
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"I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky."
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"You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself."
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"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else."
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"Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't."
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"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."
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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 really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period."
Art
"My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms."
Friendship
"Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers."
Nature
"I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback."
Work
"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
"A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object."
Painting
"I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me."
Nothing
"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
"I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself."
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