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“When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.”
“Watching people interact with it, watching people who are saying to you, as you are painting it, ‘I can’t speak’ — it takes my breath away.”
In Memory: “What painting is, is exactly what people see.”
“I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don’t look at paintings that much. We glance at them”
“You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.”
“I go out each morning and draw. I can’t really start a painting in the morning until I’ve done a drawing.”
“I think of these photographs as extensions of paintings”
“painting and drawing… what I wanted, at all costs, was to escape the monotony of life.”
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