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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Canvas
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- Nov 07, 2020
The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have a sort of inner sense for scale.
- Flower
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the first drawings I did in Paris - I wasn't thinking of doing drawings, but somehow or other, I kept drawing - I bought a hyacinth flower with a lot of leaves, just to make me feel like spring.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My earliest drawing is a supposed Carracci. It wasn't very expensive, I guess, because they don't know if it's a real Carracci. But it has all these seals on it of people who've owned it, and one of the great portrait painters of England, Reynolds, had owned it, so that's the earliest.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I only like artists older than myself. Time is so important. It's always been the same way, I guess.
- Bird
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned my color in Europe. I've always been a colorist, I think. I started when I was very young, being a bird-watcher, fascinated by the bird colors.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like mixed colors that much, like plum color or deep, deep colors that are hard to define.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted... I wanted to give people joy.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just feel like I can live on. I hope I can reach 100. I think today if you just keep doing, keep working, that - maybe that's possible.
- Curves
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes.
- Begins
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my work begins with drawings.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Boston, I developed my eye from the drawing. In Paris, I was fascinated by what my eye saw in the way that Paris is built, its 'measure.'
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I'm searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas, and it's always visual.
- Flashes
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- Nov 07, 2020
My ideas I can find anywhere. And I draw because I have to note down my ideas or flashes - I call them flashes, because they come to me, like that. Not so much in the plant drawings. I have to see them.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Paris in the late '40s, I started making my first reliefs. They are separate panels. I wanted to do something coming out of the wall, almost like a collage. I did a lot of white reliefs when I started because I liked antique reliefs, really old stuff.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have trained my eye over and over ever since I was a kid. I was a bird watcher when I was a little boy. My grandmother gave me a bird book, and I got to like their colors.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much that I never stopped.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020