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A painting is not a picture of an experience; it is an experience.
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This world of imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.
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The abstract artist has given material existence to many unseen worlds and tempi.
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It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
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A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer
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I hope to paint something that will ruin the appetite of every son of a bitch who ever eats in that room.
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To us art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risks.
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Both the sense of community and of security depend on the familiar. Freed of them, transcendental experience becomes possible.
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Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.
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[I am] dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.
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Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.
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One does not paint for design students or historians but for human beings, and the reaction in human terms is the only thing that is really satisfactory to the artist.
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I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted.
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We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless. That is why we profess spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.
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While the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done.
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The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas... Without taking the journey, the spectator has really missed the essential experience of the picture.
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It's a risky business to send a picture out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling and the cruelty of the impotent who could extend their affliction universally!
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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Born:
September 25, 1903
Died:
February 25, 1970
(aged 66)
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