"I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting."
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"God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it."
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"I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them."
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"The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life."
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"I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain."
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"I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else."
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"The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point."
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"Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything."
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"I'm working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still."
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"No painting is more replete than Mondrian's."
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"I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting."
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"Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution."
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"A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask."
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"I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful."
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"All art is bad, but modern art is the worst."
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"Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research."
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"One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different."
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"A man posing for a painting."
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"While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose."
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"In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips."
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