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" A life cycle can be imposed on an object. An object can be very energetic and active, and then it has a dying phase and a phase of decomposition. "
Claes Oldenburg
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" My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the world around it, to offset the tendency to vagueness and abstraction. To remind people of practical activity, to suggest the sense and not to escape from the senses. "
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" I like to treat paint as material - to daub it, drop it, let it slide. There was Action Painting, but I also compare it to paint effects found on the streets. This approach is superimposed on a sculptural surface that is also 'painterly.' "
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" I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal. "
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" If you really want to be an artist, you search yourself, and you find a lot of it comes from earlier times. I have pretty much built the work around my experiences. When I've moved from one place to another, the work has changed. "
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" I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete. "
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