A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.
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One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.
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I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.
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I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.
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I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.
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I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.
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But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.
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Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.
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Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings.
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