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• ‟ Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

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• ‟ I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That's what I've always done.

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• ‟ I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

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• ‟ Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art.

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• ‟ For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, it's perfect. You don't have to come with anything. What you bring to something is the art. That's where it's found. It's found within you.

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• ‟ I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.

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• ‟ I remember being an art student and going to the Whitney in 1974 to see the exhibition of Jim Nutt, the Chicago imagist. It was then I transferred to school in Chicago, all because of that show.

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• ‟ As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.

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• ‟ Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

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• ‟ I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.

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• ‟ Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

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• ‟ A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.

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• ‟ When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense of the type of invisible fabric that holds us all together, that holds the world together.

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• ‟ Art helped give me confidence.

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• ‟ I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising.

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• ‟ Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.

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• ‟ I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.

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• ‟ I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

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• ‟ I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.

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• ‟ I went to art school... but I worked at the Museum of Modern Art. I worked in fundraising at the information membership desk. I ended up, over a period of time, doubling the amount of membership revenue that came in through people entering the museum, so people would ask me to come and work for them.

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• ‟ I always like to believe that my work is about the expansion of the possibilities of the viewer. So if you have a sense of a heightened situation where there's an excitement, a physical excitement and an intellectual stimulation, there's just this sense of expansion. Because that's where the art happens. Inside the viewer.

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• ‟ I am very conscious of the viewer because that's where the art takes place. My work really strives to put the viewer in a certain kind of emotional state.

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• ‟ I think art teaches us how to feel, what our parameters can be, what sensations can be like; it makes you more engaged with life.

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