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“Curiosity is the main energy...”
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“You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.”
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“Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. I try to act in that gap between the two.
- 1959, from a catalogue”
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- 1959, from a catalogue”
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“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
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Chris’s 2025 Year in Books
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