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«Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.»
«There are three things I have always loved, and never understood - painting, music, women»
«There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking»
«The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government»
«The only valid thing in art is the one thing that cannot be explained, to explain away the mystery of a great painting would do irreplaceable harm, for whenever you explain or define something you substitute the explanation or the definition for the»
«Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.»
«Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which painting instantly sets before the eye»
«The most praiseworthy form of painting is one that most resembles what it imitates.»

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