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Commerce however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one of the daughters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled.

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The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

Art, Vision, World, See, Translate
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I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.

Eye, Mind, Think, Thinking, Ultimately

In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best.

Believe, Drawing, Erase, Gestures

Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.

Art, Felt, Honesty, Making, Real

The negative is just as important as the positive.

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I have worked to free shape from its ground, and then to work the shape so that it has a definite relationship to the space around it; so that it has a clarity and a measure within itself of its parts (angles, curves, edges and mass); and so that, with color and tonality, the shape finds its own space and always demands its freedom and separateness.

Angles, Color, Curves, Relationship, Space
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