"Do something, do something else. Do something else to that."
-Jasper Johns
-an artists' responsibility is to craft an object that will hold the viewers' attention & engage his critical, emotional, psychological & spiritual faculities, time after time after time.
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"Concentration is one of the most important things in painting."
-Lucien Freud
(Vibrations give rise to form)
-searching for nutrition for the paintings, the role of the artist is to make peoples' lives a little bit more complicated.
-The painting IS the subject.
(painting in solitude & isolation, in two small rooms down near the cold river)
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-Life cannot be negotiated in isolation
"Points of civilization & illumination within the surrounding cultural darkness"
