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“The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.”
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“The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves”
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“Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again.”
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“I don't paint to live, I live to paint.”
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“The past does not influence me; I influence it.”
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“In art one idea is as good as another.”
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