"When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process."

Art, Ability

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"When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process."

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

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"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

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"There is a broad range of reaction to the work, as there is a broad range of work I make."

Work

"Color is an intense experience on its own."

Experience

"However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it."

Work

"But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion."

People

"Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality."

Expression

"I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences."

Work

"For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?"

Thought

"I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references."

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"I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time."

Time

"I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that."

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