"Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?"
"Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible."
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Source: Exits: stories of dying moments & parting words. Book by Scott Slater, Alec Solomita, p. 8, 1980.
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