I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.
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I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!
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