"Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond."
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"The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten."
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"It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis."
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"The search for a meaningful painting subject is a search for ourselves."
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"It was easier to sell a painting that was not for sale."
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"Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it."
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"Usually my starting point is something that I've seen. It might be a painting, it might be an object. But they always start from a definite sensory experience."
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"Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion."
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"Painting taught literature to describe."
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"... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting."
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"Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas."
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"It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it."
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"When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting."
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"All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve."
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"We only have our nervous system to paint."
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"You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it."
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"Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had"
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"If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned."
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"On painting and fighting looke aloofe. [On painting and fighting look aloof.]"
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"I have friends come over and we read plays out loud and I make paintings and I just do things all the time just so I don't ever feel like I'm sitting around."
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