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• Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that…
• Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I…
• To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant…
• I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
• I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.
• The values that reside in art are anarchic, they are every man's loves and hates and his momentary divine revelation.
• If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must…
• A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a…

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