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Quotes by Artist
"Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations."
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"I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows."
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"At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you."
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"Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men."
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"I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement."
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"You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events."
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"It is said by the rebels at Roxbury that Col. Watson has given his quota to support the people."
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"Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs."
Love,
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"For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations."
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"And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter."
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"What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that."
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"My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature."
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"Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?"
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"The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds."
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"To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction."
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"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
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"Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way."
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"Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony."
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"I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs."
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"The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has."
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"I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down."
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"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
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"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
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"I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant."
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"He was very much concerned with logic and function, he always worked his solos out before playing them."
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"I've always been a liberal and I've always had strong socialist leanings."
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"I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them."
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"I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories."
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