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"What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world."
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"For the human experience, life in the natural world seems to require the application of meaning, in order to evoke purpose."
"To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!' (Buck, 57)"
"If you cannot create a meaning, the things you see will always look meaningless to you!"
"Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours."
"Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perhaps everything.... It is not that 'God' is a myth, but that myth is the revelation of a divine life in man. It is not we who invent myth; rather, it speaks to us as a Word of God."
"It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object."
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"A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already."
"One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?"
"Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away."
"One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere."
"Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80."
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