If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I would like to reproduce, then why should I use any other color
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At first, one sees the person who is modelling but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.
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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
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I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.
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In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.
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