There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

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Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving.

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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

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I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.

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Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

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Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

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