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One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling.

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Philip Taaffe

Art exists through the act of making. It has to somehow be made manifest to another person. It has to do with what one wants to see manifest, what one wants to bring into the world, what one desires to have exist.

Art, Bring, Desire, Manifest, Somehow, World
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I'm not so interested in the effort that it takes to have a self-promotional outlook. I believe in being quiet and making my work and just trying to make discoveries and let the painting evolve.

Believe, Effort, Let, Painting, Trying

I think that is the role of the artist in society - the cultural role of the artist is to perform a healing function.

Artist, Cultural, Healing, Role, Think, Thinking

I'm not so interested in this series of ruptures, where minimalism took over pop art, and then neo-expressionism was a triumph over that. I'm not interested in rupture - I'm interested in healing, bringing things together, building bridges. Not dismissing what has come before as a kind of modernist precedent, where one thing has to be broken in order to achieve something else. I don't believe in that kind of attitude. I think we're beyond that at this stage.

Art, Attitude, Believe, Bringing, Healing, Pop

I'm very tolerant of other art and other artists. But what I truly appreciate, what I truly admire in contemporary art, is work that takes on more than it can sometimes handle - art that gets in over its head.

Appreciate, Art, Head, Sometimes, Tolerant

I will do a lot of research and create a lot of material for use in one painting. And then I go on discovering and working with a whole other range of material in another painting. I'm interested in a fairly comprehensive and orchestrated synthesis that might bring about a new situation consisting of this hidden material. I'm interested in hidden source material.

Interested, Painting, Range, Situation, Working
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