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"A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object."
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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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"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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"He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting."
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"My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms."
Friendship
"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
"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
"A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy."
Art
"I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's in this picture?'"
Want
"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
"I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits."
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