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"We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer."

"All times are treasureable; the times of prosperity, and times of adversity."

"In the beauty of the mornings we forget about the night; in the beauty of the night we forget about the mornings! When you meet the beauty, you drop anchor in the present time and all other times disappear from your mind!"

"To some extent at that time, we injected rock and roll into that scene- we played loud and that was a huge turning point for that scene. We were involved in playing with all those people."
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"An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict."

"His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is."

"I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer."

"Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values."

"I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience."

"In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active."

"As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge."

"Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind."
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