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What a funny thing painting is. The abstract
painters always insist on their connection
with the visible reality, while the so called
figurative artists insist that what they really
care about, is the abstract qualities of life. |
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+ I’m a terrible cook, but if I could
cook, I would see that as art as well, it’s
how much creative energy you put into something. |
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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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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. |
| Berthe
Morisot |
:::
famous artist :::
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+ It is important to express oneself...provided
the feelings are real and are taken from you
own experience. |
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Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening
interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working,
I'm still analyzing people. |
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+ I found I could say things with color and
shapes that I couldn't say any other way--things
I had no words for. |
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Every change is a form of liberation. My mother
used to say a change is always good even if
it's for the worse. |
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For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism
of visual forces.. an event rather than an
appearance. These forces can only be tackled
by treating color and form as ultimate identities,
freeing them from all descriptive or functional
roles. |
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+ Sometimes the painting starts to relate
very directly to either sights seen or experiences
felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent
that you really can’t articulate. |
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+ I like making work in my studio day in and
day out, but I'm not so interested in the
business side. |
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I was supporting myself, but nothing like
the guy painters, as I refer to them. I always
resented that actually.. we were all getting
the same amount of press, but they were going
gangbusters with sales. |
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