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“Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.”
“Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.”
“There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.”
“Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.”
“Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.”
“Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.”
“Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.”
“Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.”
“We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.”
“Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.”
“When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.”
“Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.”
“Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.”
“Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.”
“When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.”
“Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.”
“Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.”
“There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.”
“When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.”
“Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.”
“Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.”
“When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.”
“When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.”