"It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning."
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"To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.“
-Frank Auerbach
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