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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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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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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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"Sunlight is painting."
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"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality."
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"I want to die painting."
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"But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it."
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"Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal."
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"Well, I have a very simple method of painting."
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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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"Painting is a hobby for me."
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"In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like."
Thought
"In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute."
Art
"I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient."
Self
"I think that words are often extraneous to what I do."
Art
"I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits."
Art
"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'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 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
"Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten."
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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."
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