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• I have worked to free shape from its ground, and then to work the shape so that it has a definite relationship…
• I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.
• I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer…
• Everything that I saw became something to be made, and it had to be exactly as it was, with nothing added. It…
• The form of my painting is the content. My work is made of single or multiple panels: rectangle, curved, or square. I…
• In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best.
• The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.
• I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow.
• The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.
• I have a sort of inner sense for scale.
• I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes.
• All my work begins with drawings.

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