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- don't Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't care about the Guggenheim. The Guggenheim isn't involved in anything that I am interested in. I don't care about motorcycles and Armani suits.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any artist who goes to Las Vegas is an idiot as far as I am concerned. Whoever goes to Las Vegas can stay in Las Vegas.
- Inspiration
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.
- Emerged
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.
- He Or She
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep working, and the dealer will keep trying to find some way to convince somebody to buy this stuff.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I only have so much time and energy and money, and I'm going to put it into my work.
- Flaws
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no intention of flattering people. I like wrinkles and crow's feet and flaws, and somebody should know, if I'm going to photograph them, that's going to show up, you know?
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal things.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is.
- Colors
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings.
- Decision-Making Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Art History
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.
- Grid
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
- Capable
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't draw that much better than some of the other kids, but I cared more and I wanted it badly.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one was more surprised than me when my paintings started selling, except maybe my dealer.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.
- Frozen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every child should have a chance to feel special.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.
- Blues
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want the viewer to be able to peel away the layers of my painting like the layers of an onion and find that all the blues are on the same level.
- Gravel
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
- Perception
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities.
- How
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