There is some other form that you contain within yourself that is not will or purpose and, when … - Milton Resnick

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I don't usually experience that because there are few people who intimidate me, but Woody was one of them.

Milton Resnick

There is some other form that you contain within yourself that is not will or purpose and, when applied to art, serves you best. If you systematically apply to the art that you create the aggression of the world that turned you towards art in the first place; if you, in turn, become the aggressor towards your canvas, the thing that you're doing; if you, in turn, work your will upon this thing that you want - you will then cause a dissatisfaction in this life that you create.

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It was told in the Bible. A man fell. He bit into knowledge and fell. . . How do you fall without falling completely? What do you bring as knowledge to a blank canvas? How do you begin?

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The act, the doing, the taking up of paint and putting it down - the immediate impact upon your psyche or soul that occurs when you do that - has so much danger in it.

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From the very beginning, art meant something very important to the people who made it. It was a correspondence of the emotions to what you saw; it wasn't knowledge. You were being at one with something eternal; something outside of yourself. And no matter how many fake things have been brought in to suit other conditions. . . That is still true.

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