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"I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings."
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"It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians."
Art
"I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing."
Learning
"I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant."
Life
"It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work."
Work
"Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work."
Art
"I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is."
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"You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same."
Art
"I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place."
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"I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings."
Colors
"Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from."
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"They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black."
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"There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job."
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"Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions."
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"Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel."
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"The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness."
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"It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion."
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"I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like."
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"I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires."
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"My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details."
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"I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment."
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