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[These are] not paintings in the usual sense, they are life and death merging in fearful union.

— Clyfford Still Clyfford Still (1950)

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..the light suggests no particular time of day or night [in the paintings of Paul Cézanne ]; it is not appropriated from morning or afternoon, sunlight or shadow.

The best works are often those with the fewest and simplest elements.. ..until you look at them a little more, and things start to happen.

Through them [his paintings] I breathe again.

Clyfford Still (1950)

..the idea that an artist is nothing unless he accepts the total responsibility for everything that he does.. ..by making a responsible move that he makes a statement.. .You can make a picture out of truth.

I do not want other artists to imitate my work – they do even when I tell them not to – but only [ imitate] my example for freedom and independence from all external, decadent and corrupting influences..

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