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I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

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Keep the childlike vision and remain true to your ideas.

Childlike, Ideas, Remain, Vision
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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.

Art, Material, Mistakenly, People, Thinking

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

Art, Definite, Prejudice, Rules, Skill, Skills

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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I'm always trying to get to a danger point in color, where color either becomes too sweet or it becomes too harsh, it becomes too noisy or too quiet, and at that point I still want the picture to be strong, forceful, and the carrier of everything that a painting has to have: contrast, drama, austerity.

Danger, Drama, Noisy, Strong, Sweet
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