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“Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.”

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I don't like acrylic because you can't get the density of color. And with each coat of oil paint, the surface gets better and…

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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 to the…

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All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist.

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Time has always been very important in my work.

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My ideas I can find anywhere. And I draw because I have to note down my ideas or flashes - I call them flashes,…

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The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.

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The negative is just as important as the positive.

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I'm not interested in edges. I'm interested in the mass and color, the black and white. The edges happen because the forms get as…

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The form of my painting is the content. My work is made of single or multiple panels: rectangle, curved, or square. I am less…

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I only like artists older than myself. Time is so important. It's always been the same way, I guess.

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Matisse draws what I call the essence of the plants. He leaves a shape open. He'll do a leaf and not close it. Everybody…

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All my work begins with drawings. I don’t labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line. I like to be…

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