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" It's not about finding relevance or perfection or imperfection in objects, but it's that you can accept yourself and then go out and accept others. "

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" If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about getting the outline of the forest. "

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" If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that. "

" Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art. "

" I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects. "

" When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them. "

" I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me courage to exercise the freedom that I have in life. "

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