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• Painting and art cannot be taught. You can save time if someone tells you to put blue and yellow together to make…
• If you're any kind of artist, you make a miraculous journey, and you come back and make some statements in shapes and…
• Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.
• The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?
• The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he…
• The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue
• You put down one color and it calls for an answer. You have to look at it like a melody.
• Sometimes the mind relives things very clearly for us...There are roads out of secret places within us along which we all must…
• I want to see how life can triumph.
• Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.
• Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating…
• Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.

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