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• So many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me.
• I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
• If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.
• The only real influence I've ever had was myself.
• The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
• I guess I'm not very human. All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house.
• Yes, linseed oil. I used to use poppy oil, but I have heard that poppy oil is given to cracking pigment too,…
• One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative…
• If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
• More of me comes out when I improvise.
• Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal…
• What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

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