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Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course, you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things that everybody understands. I never met him. Who? Everybody. Did you ever hear of nonrepresentational painting? I am. Pardon me? I am a painter, and painting is nonrepresentational. Not all painting. No: housepainting is representational. And what does a housepainter represent? Ten dollars an hour. In other words, you don't want to be serious. It takes two to be serious.
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    My theory of technique, if I have one, is very far from original; nor is it complicated. I can express it in fifteen words, by quoting The Eternal Question And Immortal Answer of burlesk, viz. "Would you hit a woman with a child? — No, I'd hit her with a brick." Like the burlesk comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.
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      Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself.
      An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide; and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead. But a human being who's true to himself, whoever himself may be, is immortal; and all the atomic bombs of all the antiartists in spacetime will never civilize immortality.
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