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

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

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"There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation."

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

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