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Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.55,0:00:31.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have had enormous enthusiasm for particular artists, certainly.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.86,0:00:38.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in many cases, they have been artists who lived in a completely different century from me.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.90,0:00:44.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I like what Picasso said one day. He said,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.93,0:00:50.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Some young people seem to me older than some artists who've been dead for several centuries."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.15,0:00:53.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Laughs] That was very good.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.60,0:00:57.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of these artists who've been dead for several centuries, their work seems
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.47,0:01:03.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Entirely apropos to your own concerns right now. And so you seek them out.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.97,0:01:09.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You seek their work out. And I have traveled very long distances to see exhibitions by Claude Lorrain,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.59,0:01:15.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or by Jacob Van Ruisdael, and Constable, and various people.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.72,0:01:20.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Turner, I sort of avoided, didn't think he was any good at all,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.87,0:01:26.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then, one day I was trying to paint smoke and steam coming out of a factory in Pittsburg.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.49,0:01:34.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I thought, "Oh my god, that guy Turner was an absolute master of these vapors, vapor."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.49,0:01:40.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Constable said that there were some beautiful Turners and they looked like they were
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.64,0:01:46.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Made of tinted steam, that's just right. That's exactly right.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.91,0:02:00.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know the techniques of the Ruisdael painting.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.11,0:02:03.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could no more paint a Ruisdael painting than a man on the moon.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.10,0:02:07.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know nothing about glazing, I don't use glazing at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.92,0:02:12.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am what I call a direct painter - I put lumps of paint straight down on the canvas.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.69,0:02:15.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If they don't work, I take it off and I try a different lump.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.48,0:02:20.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't let it dry and put another layer over, and let that dry, and then another layer.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.09,0:02:22.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, I don't work that way.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.16,0:02:26.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I don't have any sentimentality about those painters, I don't think.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.72,0:02:31.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's that they would seem useful to me, and provocative to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.15,0:02:35.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were like challenges to me. Can you, can you do this that well?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.49,0:02:43.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I can't access those painters technically,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.02,0:02:47.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I can access them through various things that their paintings do.