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"Painting is a state of being...self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is." Jackson Pollock

"I get freer...I have this sort of feeling that I am all there now. It's not even thinking in terms of one's limitations, because they come naturally. I think whatever you have you can do wonders with it, if you accept it." Willem de Kooning, "What Abstract Art Means to Me" (1951)

"One piece of advice, don't copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction: derive this abstraction from nature while dreaming before it, but think more of creating than the actual result." Gauguin

"If a painting does not make a human contact, it is nothing. But the audience is also responsible. Through pictures our passions touch. Pictures are vehicles of passion, of all kinds and orders, not pretty luxuries like sports cars. In our society, the capacity to give and receive passion is limited. For this reason, the act of painting is deep human necessity, not the production of a hand-made commodity." Motherwell 1965

"The artist expresses only what he has within himself, not what he sees with his eyes." Jawlensky

"Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art. And tolerance for uncertainty is the prerequisite to succeeding." Art & Fear

"Plato maintained that all art is a gift from the gods, channeled through artists who are "out of their mind" - quite literally, in Plato's view - when making art." Art & Fear, 1993