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I like the heat the tenderness the edible the lusciousness the song of a single person the bathtub full of water to bathe myself beneath the water. I like Ucello, Grunewald, Ingres, the drawings and sketches for paintings of Seurat and that man [=Pablo Picasso ]. I measure all things by weight.

— Arshile Gorky

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Movement is the translation of life, and if art depicts life, movement should come into art, since we are only aware of living because it moves.

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I was with Cézanne for a long time, and now naturally I am with Picasso

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You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted.

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