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“Painting is manual labor, no different from any other: it can be done well, or poorly” George Gross Many viewers want to know how long it takes to do a painting. I often wonder about that question. Are they curious because they are equating time…
Read details“I’m always saying to myself: ‘that is not right yet. You can do better’. It is rare when I can prevent myself from taking a thing up again…Sometimes it becomes an obsession” …
Read details” The mystical will always be with us…A whole mass of things that cannot be rationalized…new born thoughts that are not properly formed” …
Read details“The skilled hand is never anything but the servant of the mind…Even if the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled workers trained in the technique of their craft, nothing could be done with them if they had no ideal. …
Read details“I truly believe artwork does not exist without the viewer. As an artist you have to let go—something happens that you are not a part of anymore and that is totally unique to the person viewing it. When I see a person viewing my work, it’s quite amazing to me to see the different reactions…
Read details“I think that when one is young it is the object, the outside world that fires one’s enthusiasm; one is carried away by it. In later life it is something within ones self, the need to express an emotion, that leads a painter to choose his point of departure, one form rather than another.” …
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