"You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react."
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"I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me."
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"I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well."
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"Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense."
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"I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart."
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"Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting."
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"We may call painting the grandchild of nature."
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"He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature."
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"How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains."
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"Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well."
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"The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it."
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"Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees."
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"I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold."
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"The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me."
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"In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner."
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"He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed."
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"If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting."
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"The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery."
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"In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it."
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