"When I'm painting outdoors, I only have time to think about what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it."
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"Each part of a great painting should in itself be a great painting."
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"One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth."
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"In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion as it approaches the effect of painting."
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"Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy."
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"Painting is a jeu d'esprit."
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"Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty."
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"Rock & roll is like a painting. Can great paintings still be done? It depends on who holds the brush."
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"Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own."
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"Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception."
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"I don't know if I can convey the postman as I feel him... Unfortunately he cannot pose, and a painting demands an intelligent model."
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"No matter what medium I'm using, or what subject I'm painting, I do retain a fairly set approach to painting."
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"If I had a Salvador Dali painting, I would cuddle it to sleep."
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"I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do."
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"If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently."
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"I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself."
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"I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it."
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"Getting plastic surgery in your late 70's, it's kind of like painting your house as the fire approaches. Just die, there's no shame in it."
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"I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is."
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"The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer."
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