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• Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of…
• You see what you know!
• I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.
• I like real art. It's difficult to define 'real' but it is the best word for describing what I like to get…
• A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.
• Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it…
• Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings,…
• I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were…
• I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there
• One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. I can't stress enough how important it is, if you are…
• All I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that…
• No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and…

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