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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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"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."
"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
"One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it."
"I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings."
"I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world."
"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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"My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms."
"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."
"I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing."
"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."
"I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient."
"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?'"
"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."
"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."
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