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"I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement."
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"We are all the sum of a million moments in our lives."
"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."
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"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."
"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."
"Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?"
"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
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"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."
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"As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion."
"One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space."
"Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life."
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"I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea."
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"Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that."
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