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The Main Thing Is Not To Be Dead.

Any Incentive To Paint Is As Good As Any Other. There Is No Poor Subject.

The 'pure' Red Of Which Certain Abstractionists Speak Does Not Exist. Any Red Is Rooted In Blood, Glass, Wine, Hunters' Caps And A Thousand Other Concrete Phenomena. Otherwise We Would Have No Feeling Toward Red And Its Relations.

In The Brush Doing What It Is Doing, It Will Stumble On What One Could Not Do By Oneself.

For A Painter As Abstract As Myself, The Collages Offer A Way Of Incorporating Bits Of The Everyday World Into Pictures.