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We are freeing ourselves of the impediments of memory, association, nostalgia, legend, myth, or what have you, that have been the devices of western European painting. Instead of making 'cathedrals' out of Christ, man, or 'life', we are making it out of ourselves, out of our own feelings..

— 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.

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

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

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