Chaos in nature is immediately challenging and forces a good artist to impose some type of order on … - Wolf Kahn

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At school, I was the classroom clown - I was always being thrown out for being naughty. Before I left, a teacher called me in and suggested I became an actor.

Wolf Kahn

Chaos in nature is immediately challenging and forces a good artist to impose some type of order on his or her perception of a site.

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People mistakenly think that art is about nature, or about an artists feelings about nature. It is instead a path of enlightenment and pleasure, one of many paths, where nature and the artists feelings are merely raw material.

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Keep the childlike vision and remain true to your ideas.

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There are many prejudices about art, and first among them is that it is a skill and that there are definite rules.

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I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is wasted on the young," we should add that "Age can be wasted on the aged," unless one's capacity to wonder increases.

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I want the people looking at my work to feel a sense of all the possibilities of painting, and, through that, in life as a whole. When that happens, I feel I've accomplished something useful.

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