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“For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.”

Robert Motherwell

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Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.

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A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium.

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The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain.

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Every picture one paints involves not painting others.

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