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Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.

— Barnett Newman

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Surrealism, is interested in a dream world that will penetrate the human psyche.

All artists whether primitive or sophisticated, have been involved in the handling of chaos.

Aesthetics is for painting as Ornithology is for the birds.

Let us, rather, like the Greek writers, tear the tragedy to shreds.

I think every man is an artist.

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