It's absolutely irrelevant what galleries and critics and people who buy your paintings think. They just don't have … - Milton Resnick

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No one can know what happiness is if you have not gone through the disappointmentOne can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.

Milton Resnick

It's absolutely irrelevant what galleries and critics and people who buy your paintings think. They just don't have any possible idea of what happens to you and they're really not that interested. As a matter of fact, they hate the idea that anything really happens to you. They want you to be a genius and that's it.

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It was told in the Bible. A man fell. He bit into knowledge and fell. . . How do you fall without falling completely? What do you bring as knowledge to a blank canvas? How do you begin?

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The religions never wanted an art where you paint only what you see.

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I painted myself out of my painting.

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The act, the doing, the taking up of paint and putting it down - the immediate impact upon your psyche or soul that occurs when you do that - has so much danger in it.

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From the very beginning, art meant something very important to the people who made it. It was a correspondence of the emotions to what you saw; it wasn't knowledge. You were being at one with something eternal; something outside of yourself. And no matter how many fake things have been brought in to suit other conditions. . . That is still true.

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