I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.
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But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to.
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Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three.
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If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.
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But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable.
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A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.
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Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.
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I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else.
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There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.
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And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary.
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