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My paintings are only the ashes of my art


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Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions.

Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions.



The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art.

The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art.



At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.

At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.



I did not like the nothing, and it is thus that I met the empty, the deep empty, the depth of the blue.

I did not like the nothing, and it is thus that I met the empty, the deep empty, the depth of the blue.



Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw.

Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw.



Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.

Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.



To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.

To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.



I have written my name on the far side of the sky.

I have written my name on the far side of the sky.



Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state.

Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state.



For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.

For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.





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Joy is a characteristic of spiritual maturity and of surrender.

Joy is a characteristic of spiritual maturity and of surrender.




The coding was anachronistic, kind of like bokeh in a renaissance painting.

The coding was anachronistic, kind of like bokeh in a renaissance painting.



There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either.

There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either.



And now it looks like I'm probably going to shoot a movie that I wrote. I got the money to do it, and I would star and all, because of being on Howard.

And now it looks like I'm probably going to shoot a movie that I wrote. I got the money to do it, and I would star and all, because of being on Howard.



I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.

I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.



The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus

The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus



I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court.

I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court.



Water is the best of all things.

Water is the best of all things.



The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.




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