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The Abstractness Of Modern Art Has To Do With How Much An Enlightened Mind Rejects Of The Contemporary Social Order.

To End Up With A Canvas That Is No Less Beautiful Than The Empty Canvas Is To Begin With.

To Pick Up A Cigarette Wrapper Or Wine Label Or An Old Letter Or The End Of A Carton Is My Way Of Dealing With Those Things That Do Not Originate In Me, In My I.

If You Give A Child Something Very Complex To Paint, Such As A Bouquet Of Flowers Or A Natural Landscape, If He Is Very Good, Eventually He Will Get Back - Like Cezanne - To The Essential Forms Of What He Sees.

Every Picture One Paints Involves Not Painting Others.