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• When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.

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  Echoes, Abstract Painting, Patterns

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• If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first; name later.

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  Art, Names, Vision

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• Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.

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  Mean, Creative, Excellence

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• We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.

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  Experience, Pleasure, Explanation

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• Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.

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  Art, Expression, Play

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• When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.

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  Next, Painting, One Thing

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• Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.

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  Home, Trying, Places To Go

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• Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.

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  Years, Ugly, Firsts

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• Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.

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  Eye, Vision, Adrift

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• There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.

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  Art, Way, Methodology

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• When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.

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  Thinking, Feelings, Remember

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• To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.

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  Art, Past, Yesterday

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• Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.

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  Art, Wall, Labels

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• Don't explain, enjoy.

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  Joy, Enjoy

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• Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.

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  Imagination, Conventions, Release

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• Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.

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  Real, World, Painting

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• When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.

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  Ideas, Faults, Use

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• Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.

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  Hope, Art, Trying

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• Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.

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  Believe, History, Facts

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• Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.

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  Art, Past, Greatness

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• The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.

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  Freedom, Artist, Want

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• When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.

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  Fashion, Trends, Imitation

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• Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.

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  Art, Turns, Ifs

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