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This is not abstraction.

Have always felt that I could stand knee deep in [[strikethrough]] the ground [[/strikethrough]] sand or water - and paint what was going on inside. What is working directly on the painting and in terms of what would spread over a surface and express that feeling. without resorting to the representing of anything but simply to the presenting of the thing felt. That is not using nature as a model glancing back & forth. Nature to the eye, through the arm to the hand & to the picture. But doing the thing you are doing, making some thing you want to function by itself. If it is a sketch it is a model [[strikethrough]] for [[/strikethrough]] of a painting as a ship model is of a ship that will stand the tests of weather in the right hands.

We do not try to make an airplane

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knowing all about engines or the history of art its latest developments. The one unbecoming thing is to walk around the aviation field or the art gallery and say "this is all over my head".