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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a young kid at art school, I loved the sensual geometry of Poliakoff, which, of course, is inherent in my own work.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was doing an interview with a curator, and he asked me to sum up art in one word. Before he even finished asking the question, I said, 'Impurity.' Because that's it.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you stand over on the edge of the west coast of Ireland and look west, you are looking at something you can't see, only imagine. You know America is there, and you can imagine it being there. But you're also looking into infinity, because you can see nothing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really in the business of unifying these two tendencies that have been at odds in our human history for a very long time: the logical and the romantic.
- Job
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My job is to return abstraction to the people: in a sense, to popularize it without lowering the bar, which is a lot easier said than done.
- Finish
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting is profoundly emotional. When I finish a painting, I'm usually extremely sad.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a very spiritual person: I could say a Catholic with a strong underpinning of Zen.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood was extremely unhappy. That's not to say that my parents didn't love me. But it was traumatic, and of course, art doesn't come out of rosy gardens. It comes out of damage.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is a very rich and reactive surface. I begin by drawing on the canvas with a kind of loose line, very simply and freely. I paint very thinly, which allows me to change the drawing if I want to.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look at my paintings for a very long time before letting them out of my studio. I like to get on the treadmill and look around at all of my paintings while I exercise. I try to stare them down to make them reveal their weaknesses. If they reveal weaknesses, they get repainted.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020