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"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 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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"The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature."
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"The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt."
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"I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house."
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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
"Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from."
Work
"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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"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."
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"Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience."
Life
"I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant."
Life
"Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow."
People
"What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look."
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"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
"It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work."
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