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"The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does."
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"And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on."

"Sometimes you just have to have a can-do fuck you attitude."

"Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities."

"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases."

"He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn't smile when they say that he rocks."

"When you consistently complain about the things you are gifted to do, check your motivation."

"Guard yourself with a positive attitude, conviction, hope and fulfillment of your heart's desire."
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"I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation."


"I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens."


"I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns... your thought process goes on."


"Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art."


"I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious."


"The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does."
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