“I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.”
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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