"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."
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"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."
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"Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up."
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"I'd rather be remembered as a famous painter than a famous model, so I'll have to start the ball rolling now."
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"I'm a painter in my dreams, you know."
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