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+ I seem to
have to do it elaborately wrong and with many conceits first. Then maybe I can
attack and deflate my pomposity and arrive at something straight and simple.
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If what a person makes is completely and profoundly right according to his lights
then this work contains the whole man. A work which falls short of this content,
is only of passing value and lends itself to arbitrariness and fragmentation.
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When I am halfway there with a painting, it can occasionally be thrilling.. But
it happens very rarely; usually it's agony. I go to great pains to mask the agony.
But the struggle is there. It's the invisible enemy.
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I want painting to be difficult to do. The more obstacles, obstructions, problems..
the better.
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In a successful painting everything is integral.. all the parts belong to the
whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness. +
Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting.
A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a painting as the canvas
develops. The represented forms are loaded with psychological feeling. It can't
ever just be painting.
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