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My Interest In Desperation Lies Only In That Sometimes I Find Myself Having Become Desperate. Very Seldom Do I Start Out That Way. I Can See Of Course That, In The Abstract, Thinking And All Activity Is Rather Desperate.

I See The Canvas And I Begin... It's A Necessary Evil To Get Into The Work, And It's Pretty Marvelous To Be Able To Get Out Of It.

Style Is A Fraud. I Always Felt The Greeks Were Hiding Behind Their Columns.

I Read Somewhere That Rubens Said Students Should Not Draw From Life, But Draw From All The Great Classic Casts. Then You Really Get The Measure Of Them, You Really Know What To Do. And Then, Put In Your Own Dimples. Isn't That Marvelous!

Maybe In That Earlier Phase I Was Painting The Woman In Me. Art Isn't A Wholly Masculine Occupation, You Know.