A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting.
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You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react.
Painting is a coalescing of experience.
Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.
Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.
A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?
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