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• A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of…
• Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.
• Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.
• I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.
• Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.
• Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely…
• If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective
• An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline…

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