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My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph Picture Quote #1

I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last 60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings Picture Quote #1

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes Picture Quote #1

One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up Picture Quote #1

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor Picture Quote #1

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man Picture Quote #1

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I don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart Picture Quote #1

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father’s generation Picture Quote #1

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people Picture Quote #1

I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings... Boy With Pail... Kitten On Fire Picture Quote #1

In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above... so I never have to go upstairs Picture Quote #1

In the paintings I was always interested in taking elements of space and the reality that we know and dissolving it into patterns Picture Quote #1

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I am very invested in the physical activity and the decision-making that is involved with making paintings - nothing else is quite like it Picture Quote #1

I’m interested in how paintings can change or transform - sometimes through close examination or viewed from afar; or how they hold the space of a wall or interact in a room with each other Picture Quote #1

I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don’t crop them, I don’t manipulate them or anything. So they’re like found objects to me Picture Quote #1

I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can’t really get away from them, I like them to operate in that way on the viewer Picture Quote #1

I don’t think the meaning in my paintings comes from just using broken dishes Picture Quote #1

I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I’ve sort of freed myself from stylistic inhibitions Picture Quote #1

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I’m using the grid as formation. I wanted a relationship between the paintings and videos so that way when you are looking at the videos there’s a direct relationship to the paintings Picture Quote #1

I try to be aware of technology and Japanese animation and old Belgian paintings, and get all my references from bits of everywhere Picture Quote #1

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter Picture Quote #1

Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort of physical space that the paintings occupy...like personages Picture Quote #1

Only when the habit of one’s consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition Picture Quote #1

There are three things I have always loved and never understood, paintings, music, and woman Picture Quote #1

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I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics. The great ideas in science, like the Cro-Magnon paintings and the plays of Shakespeare, are part of our cultural heritage Picture Quote #1

Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is ‘all of a piece’ up close, each is a bewildering complexity of moods, cognitions, and motives Picture Quote #1

I don’t (do) the paintings for the money at all. I just love to paint, even if I don’t sell them Picture Quote #1

When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway - in France we have Nathalie Sarraute - and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater. I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently Picture Quote #1

Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn’t know Cary Grant. They’re going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings Picture Quote #1

Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became one of the most famous artists of all time and his work is now considered priceless. Oh the irony Picture Quote #1

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My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph (Paintings Quotes) I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last 60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings (Paintings Quotes) The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes (Paintings Quotes) One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up (Paintings Quotes) One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor (Paintings Quotes) All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man (Paintings Quotes) I don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart (Paintings Quotes) I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father’s generation (Paintings Quotes) I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people (Paintings Quotes) I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings... Boy With Pail... Kitten On Fire (Paintings Quotes) In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above... so I never have to go upstairs (Paintings Quotes) In the paintings I was always interested in taking elements of space and the reality that we know and dissolving it into patterns (Paintings Quotes) I am very invested in the physical activity and the decision-making that is involved with making paintings - nothing else is quite like it (Paintings Quotes) I’m interested in how paintings can change or transform - sometimes through close examination or viewed from afar; or how they hold the space of a wall or interact in a room with each other (Paintings Quotes) I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don’t crop them, I don’t manipulate them or anything. So they’re like found objects to me (Paintings Quotes) I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can’t really get away from them, I like them to operate in that way on the viewer (Paintings Quotes) I don’t think the meaning in my paintings comes from just using broken dishes (Paintings Quotes) I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I’ve sort of freed myself from stylistic inhibitions (Paintings Quotes) I’m using the grid as formation. I wanted a relationship between the paintings and videos so that way when you are looking at the videos there’s a direct relationship to the paintings (Paintings Quotes) I try to be aware of technology and Japanese animation and old Belgian paintings, and get all my references from bits of everywhere (Paintings Quotes) The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter (Paintings Quotes) Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort of physical space that the paintings occupy...like personages (Paintings Quotes) Only when the habit of one’s consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition (Paintings Quotes) There are three things I have always loved and never understood, paintings, music, and woman (Paintings Quotes) I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics. The great ideas in science, like the Cro-Magnon paintings and the plays of Shakespeare, are part of our cultural heritage (Paintings Quotes) Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is ‘all of a piece’ up close, each is a bewildering complexity of moods, cognitions, and motives (Paintings Quotes) I don’t (do) the paintings for the money at all. I just love to paint, even if I don’t sell them (Paintings Quotes) When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway - in France we have Nathalie Sarraute - and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater. I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently (Paintings Quotes) Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn’t know Cary Grant. They’re going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings (Paintings Quotes) Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became one of the most famous artists of all time and his work is now considered priceless. Oh the irony (Paintings Quotes)

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