To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
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I paint with shapes.
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My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.
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The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.
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