Ends Quote by Stephen Beal

“My studio work is a central part of my life and I'd be at loose ends without it. When I'm not in my studio, I don't stop thinking about painting.” quote by Stephen Beal — Download Open image

“My studio work is a central part of my life and I'd be at loose ends without it. When I'm not in my studio, I don't stop thinking about painting.”

Stephen Beal

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I moved to Chicago and began attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The students and teachers I met in Chicago were…

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Only at the end of the last stroke of paint, you can begin to wonder what needs to be done next.

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My life as a painter influences my teaching and my duties as president of CCA - and I hope some of the experience of…

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I'm interested in how paintings can change or transform - sometimes through close examination or viewed from afar; or how they hold the space…

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I am very invested in the physical activity and the decision-making that is involved with making paintings - nothing else is quite like it.

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“On Becoming a Poet in the 1950s" There was love and there was trees. Either you could stay inside and probe your emotions or…

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