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I felt it necessary to evolve entirely new concepts (of form and space and paintings) and postulate them in an instrument that could continue to shake itself free from dialectical perversions. The dominant ones, Cubism and Expressionism, only reflected the attitudes of power or spiritual debasement of the individual.

— Clyfford Still

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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.

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

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..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.

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