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— James Elkins"It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist's numbers, always counting but never adding up, always speaking but never saying anything rational, always playing at being abstract but never leaving the clotted body."
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The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in themselves.
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I firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components.
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