I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
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It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.Georgia OKeeffe
I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.
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One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
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I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.
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I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
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