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"I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me."
"The real subject of every painting is light."
"If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable?"
"Writing is the painting of the voice."
"If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry"
"I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel."
"The time has passed for our sensations in painting to be whispered. We wish them in the future to sing and re-echo upon our canvasses in deafening and triumphant flourishes."
"When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one laid down a course of action for us, and our friends the poets followed our endeavour attentively but they never dictated it to us."
"Painting is silent poetry."
"Painting is something that takes place among the colors."
"Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself."
"To me, the whole process of being a brush stroke in someone else's painting is a little difficult"
"Painting is so much more than the materials."
"I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting."
"One must act in painting as in life, directly."
"There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings."
"Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit."
"Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting."
"My painting is visible images that conceal nothing... they evoke mystery. Mystery means nothing. It is unknowable."
"My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music business"
