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I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture away about thirty feet on the wall and the movements keep returning to me and the eye seems to be responding to something living, then it is finished.

William Baziotes

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William Baziotes
Age: 50 †
Born: 1912
Born: June 11
Died: 1963
Died: June 6
Drawer
Painter
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
William A. Baziotes
Keep
Movement
Spot
Seems
Goes
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Something
Feet
Thirty
Particular
Finished
Eyes
Picture
Returning
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Responding
Living
Wall
Movements
Away
Painting
Canvas

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