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+ I paint self-portraits because I am so often
alone, because I am the person I know best. |
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An empty canvas is a living wonder.. far lovelier
than certain pictures.
+ There is no must in art because art is free. |
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+ To me, it's not work. When I draw and I
write, I find it relaxing. It's not like 9-to-5,
where a man goes to a job and he isn't really
interested in the job. Luckily, I get paid
for doing what I'd do for nothing. |
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We live in a fractured world. I've always
seen it as my role as an artist to attempt
to make wholeness. |
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I believe art has to take responsibility but
it should not give up being art. |
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What I paint touches on foundational life
values. Home, family, peacefulness. And one
of the messages I try to constantly get across
is slow it down and enjoy every moment. |
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+ You really can't bring about anything new
with art. I knew that already as a child.
One can try to change the world for oneself,
but exhibitions are, actually, quite superflous. |
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My paintings are allegories not portraits. |
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Kitaj quotes |
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+ There are some people who don't like museums
because they think of them as tombs, or something
negative. I've always loved them. They are
to me lighthouses of utopianism and social
well-being. |
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Everything vanishes around me, and works are
born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic
fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient
instrument of a remote will. |
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As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice,
I began to feel hatred for birds which flew
back and forth across my blue sky, cloudless
sky, because they tried to bore holes in my
greatest and most beautiful work. |
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+ Whoever wants to know something about me
(as an artist, the only notable thing) ought
to look carefully at my pictures and try and
see in them what I am and what I want to do. |
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The final test of a painting, theirs, mine,
any other, is: does the painter's emotions
come across? |
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I'm basically the idea person. I'm not physically
involved in the production. I don't have the
necessary abilities, so I go to the top people..
+ I believe in advertisement and media completely.
My art and my personal life are based in it.
I think that the art world would probably
be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved
in advertising. |
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We get used to a certain kind of color of
form or format, and it's acceptable. And to
puncture that is sticking your neck out a
bit. And then pretty soon, that's very acceptable. |
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+ I always say that I'm an artist who works
with pictures and words, so I think that the
different aspects of my activity, whether
it's writing criticism, or doing visual work
that incorporates writing, or teaching, or
curating, is all of a single cloth, and I
don't make any separation in terms of those
practices. |
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art quotes"
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