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"I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"When life gives you pain, give life your unconditional love."

"You, your thoughts, and your imagination control the doorway to happiness. Service to the humanity is key to that doorway."
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"I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have."

"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."

"Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object."

"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."

"I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around."

"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."

"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."

"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."
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