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"I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object."
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"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

"She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte."
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"To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible."


"I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad."


"I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me."


"At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery."


"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show."


"I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare."


"If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window."
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