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Words are living things. They have personality, point of view. . . agenda.

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I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.

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A good painting has to do about 12 things at once.

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A picture can be funny and also weep inducing. One cries for many reasons. The state of weeping, for me, is induced by recognition of a rarified level of integration - thinking about what must it have taken to reach that integration.

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I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway.

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I think you do kind of slip into a trance when you look at a painting. At least I do.

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When there's a painting in the room, my eye goes right to it. It's like if you go into a bar and there's a television on, you can't take your eyes off the television. Paintings have that effect on me. It's where my eye settles.

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