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I think the reason we [Baziotes himself and Richard Lippold ] begin in a different way, is that this particular time has gotten to a point where the artist feels like a gambler. He does something on the canvas and takes a chance in the hope that something important will be revealed.

— William Baziotes Artists' Session at Studio 35 (1950)

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The eye seems to be responding to something living.

One can begin a picture and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all.

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One hundred artists introduce us to one hundred worlds.

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I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting. What happens on the canvas is unpredictable and surprising to me.

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