"I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance."
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"The painter strives and competes with nature."
"I have heard painters acknowledge, though in that acknowledgment no degradation of themselves was intended, that they could do better without nature than with her; or as they express themselves, 'that it only put them out."
"Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up."
"I'd rather be remembered as a famous painter than a famous model, so I'll have to start the ball rolling now."
"I'm a painter in my dreams, you know."