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"I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over."
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"The night creeps in by subtle degrees while a show of fierce colors attracts and distracts me. I look up, suddenly aware of remote lights scattered overhead. I gasp as the last streak of fire dies on the horizon, and I comprehend it all too late. That crafty, dark night has swallowed my world whole."
"I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything."
"I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I."
"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night."
"Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night."
"Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night."
"Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone."
"One or two of the trips were a bit scary. Soldiers had me at gun point on one trip, locked me in my van all night and escorted me in and out of buildings when I wanted to wash."
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"The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see."
"I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere."
"Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe."
"Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation."
"In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?"
"Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined."
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