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• Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults. Formulating something is a great start. I…
• Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is…
• Since there is no such thing as absolute rightness and truth, we always pursue the artificial, leading, human truth. We judge and…
• Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures.…
• Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the…
• Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.
• Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what…
• Art is the highest form of hope.
• My paintings are wiser than I am.
• To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable…
• I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false
• Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture…

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