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" All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy. "
Double-Edged
Out
Sorrow
" A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions. "
Touch
Work
Power
" A lot of my work is about equalizing things and kind of destroying any barrier between what's high and low, or what's deep or what's shallow, complex or simple. I hope I'm ever-changing. "
Kind
Deep
Work
" A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using bubblegum? The energy comes from walking that line and watching things dip this way and that. "
Way
Walking
Painting
" Art class was my thing, but not any other class. "
Any
Thing
Other
" Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God. "
Think
Art
Through
" As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination. "
Oil
Imagination
Confidence
" At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in. "
Vision
Day
End
" For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't have done this without my family. Being the people that they are - they're crazy - made it possible for me to be crazy and to live a lifestyle of my own design. "
Me
Live
Family
" I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low. "
Say
Low
World
" I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can see. "
Like
Think
Beyond
" I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images. "
Images
Try
Things
" It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside. "
Fame
Want
You
" It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own. "
Weird
Work
Work Hard
" It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make. "
Friends
Help
Lot
" I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.' "
Kind
Try
Say
" I've always been interested in moments of disbelief... I don't know if they possess any magic, but they do have something. "
Moments
Always
Any
" Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable. "
Painting
Love Is
Love
" The different bodies of my work end themselves when there's no more discovery to be had. "
More
Work
End
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