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"I have known for a long time what I am doing, and why I do it. My artistic center is in my brain and not elsewhere and I am strong because I am never sidetracked by others, and do what is in me." - Paul Gauguin

"You distort for empathy." - Jack Levine

"The wish to verbalize diminishes as the work is in constant change." - Edward Dugmore

"Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language." Balthus

"One must clearly take one's position and not care what critics say. A painter is never understood, at best he is accepted." - Georges Braque

"Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding." - Picasso

"The painting has a life of it's own." - Pollock

"When I paint, I am ageless. I have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting." - Francis Bacon

"Don't be an art critic, but paint, there lies salvation." - Paul Cezanne

"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye, it also includes the inner pictures of the soul." - Edvard Munch

"Style is the natural consequence of habit." - Bayles & Orland

"Oh yes! He loved yellow, this good Vincent." - Paul Gauguin


"Heidi's Repose", Acrylic on Canvas.