Art Quote by John Chamberlain

“I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.” quote by John Chamberlain — Download Open image

“I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.”

John Chamberlain

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