"I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones."
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"There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings."
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"Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you."
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"If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state."
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"To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back."
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"There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away."
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"I firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components."
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"Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer."
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"Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees."
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"I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot."
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"If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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"... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection."
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"There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning."
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"Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes simplified until it can be nothing but abstraction."
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"If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting."
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"Once there were 'outside' and 'inside' paintings-now there is no difference."
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"The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture."
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"But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which the Lord has bestowed upon us, for His glory and our good, shall not be preposterously abused, nay, shall not be perverted to our destruction."
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"I feel like I have to avoid certain thrift store-isms, having been known for the thrift store paintings. It's like I have to not paint that way."
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