Quote #6

I don't work from drawings or colour sketches... I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them... I can control the flow of paint, there is no accident, just as there is no beginning or no end.

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  1. I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dr…
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  3. Bill is a good painter but he's a French painter.
  4. My concern is with the rhythms of nature... I work inside out, like nature.
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  6. Painting is my whole life....
  7. I am nature.
  8. Something in me knows where I'm going, and - well, painting is a state of being.

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