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For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much as anything I have ever done. They are invariably without premeditation. I mean not only that I have no plan when I make them, I also have no plan to make them.

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The main thing is not to be dead.

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Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

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What could be more interesting, or in the end, more ecstatic, than in those rare moments when you see another person look at something you've made, a…

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Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

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Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

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Each brushstroke is a decision.

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Art is an experience, not an object.

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Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

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