1. “I don’t paint to lie, I live to paint.”
2. “Content is a glimpse.”
3. “Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.”
4. “I have to change to stay the same.”
5. “What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.”
6. “An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.”
7. “The trouble with being poor is that it takes all your time.”
8. “The past does not influence me; I influence it.”
9. “The texture of experience is prior to everything else.”
10. “You have to keep on the very ege of something, all the time, or the picture dies.”
11. “I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.”
12. “I’ like to get all the colors in the world into one painting.”
13. “If you’re an artist, the problem is to make picture work whether you are happy or not.”
14. “The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.”
15. “Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.”
16. “In art one idea is as good as another.”
17. “The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.”
18. “Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.”
19. “Art should not have to be certain way.”
20. “Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.”
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