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"And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such."
"Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen."
"I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free."
"I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious."
"I had whooping cough when I was very young, which left me with bronchial problems, and I would always pick up colds. I was very thin and nervous so my father and mother took me out of school and had me tutored at home."
"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show."
"I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me."
"It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion."
"To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me."
"To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible."
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