My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.
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For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
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Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical.
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Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.
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I am a believer and a conformist.
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