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• For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much…
• In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.
• Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
• One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.
• Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he…
• Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends…
• Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound,…
• In printmaking, I essentially use the same process as in painting with one important exception ... to try, with sensitivity to the…
• Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.
• The main thing is not to be dead.
• Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation
• To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.

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