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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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"I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena."
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"If you see me on Friday, you'll see different material on Saturday night."
"Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking, loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning."
"One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes."
"There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another."
"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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"Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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?"
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