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"Do not depreciate a creation of God."

"You were endowed with the treasure of time so that you could buy greatness with it."

"There is worth everywhere and in everything we see."

"The value of a substance is the product of the time spent to achieve it."

"The sweetest apples are eaten first."

"You are beloved; even if you were the last person on earth, the sun would rise for you."

"If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics."
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"Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind."

"There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation."

"As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge."

"As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play."

"In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active."

"I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer."

"I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience."

"An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict."
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