Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

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Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

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And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.

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Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.

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Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.

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As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.

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I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.

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I do not consider self-expression as important. It's not important as a method of teaching. And it's not important as an aim of any art branch.

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I have invented the Thermometer style.

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I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.

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